2009/3/8 Tim Roberts <t...@probo.com>: > Tim Rowe <digi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>I don't think the article is right that "it's silly to have some >>expression/statement groupings indentation based and some grouped by >>enclosing tokens" -- provided it's done right. The OCAML-based >>language F# accepts OCAML enclosing tokens, but if you mark the groups >>with indentation they're not necessary (but still legal). That seems >>to me to work pretty cleanly. > > Boy, I really want to like F# -- a lot of smart people have worked on it -- > but every program I write is completely incomprehensible to me a week > later. > > The more I look around, the more I like Python.
Indentation works just fine in Python, too, just in case anybody hadn't noticed ;-) My point was that Python isn't alone on that whitespace-significant plateau. F# is up here too. And so is FORTRAN, of course. We try to ignore FORTRAN, but the distance we are able to edge away from it goes to show how big the plateau is. -- Tim Rowe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
