J. Cliff Dyer wrote:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bjoern Schliessmann wrote:
What's wrong with this:
for Link in GetEachRecord(
Then you're no longer showing the syntax structure in two dimensions.
If somebody handed me a program of more than twenty five lines that
was formatted "two dimensionally" as you call it, and asked me to deal
with it, the first thing I would do is reformat the code so a not to
be so hideously ugly. Your style has the unfortunate consequence of
requiring the reader to scroll ridiculous distances, making it more
difficult to maintain. I do see the benefit of using multiple lines
on complex statements, such as:
if (actor == 'Tony Leung'
or actor == 'Alec Baldwin'
or actor == 'Divine'
or actor == 'Fitty-cent'
or actor == 'Sir Ian McKellen'):
go_see_the_movie()
but even here, there is some attempt to keep things compact by making
each line meaningful.
However, I utterly fail to see how putting the word "or" on its own
line, (or worse: "if!") clarifies things in the slightest.
Part of the point of designing python with a line break as the
statement closer is to encourage you to write in a style that treats
each line as a statement. Changing the syntax to encourage people to
violate this principle would not be an improvement to the design, but
a relinquishing of basic principles. Obviously there are some cases
where you want to do something different, but that's what backslashes
are for. Frankly, I find your code just as ugly without the
backslashes as it is with them.
Cheers,
Cliff
I replied to poster instead of to list. My apologies.
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