Op 2005-03-25, John Roth schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > "Antoon Pardon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Op 2005-03-25, Tim Tyler schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> What do you guys think about Python's grouping of code via indentation? >>> >>> Is it good - perhaps because it saves space and eliminates keypresses? >> >> I think it was a mistake, but I'm probably in the minority here. > > Um, why?
1) It makes it hard to see how many levels are dedented at the end of a suite, and sometime makes it difficult to see where the end of a suite is. If e.g. you are looking at the code spread over two pieces of paper, it is sometimes hard to see whether the suite ends at the end of the first page or not. 2) It makes it hard to introduce some kind of new syntax constructs. Sometimes its isn't clear what would be the best indentation scheme for a syntantical structure, or some usefull syntantical won't fall in the indentation scheme that python provides. I think it a shame that these consideration would limit what constructs get into python or not. 3) Sometimes the structure of the algorithm is not the structure of the code as written, people who prefer that the indentation reflects the structure of the algorithm instead of the structure of the code, are forced to indent wrongly. -- Antoon Pardon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
