On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:47:08 -0600, John Bokma wrote: > An editor can correct the indenting of the braces example but can't with > this one. > > if x: > if y: > foo() > else: > bar() > > While braces might be considered redundant they are not when for one > reason or another formatting is lost or done incorrectly.
I've heard this argument before, and I don't buy it. Why should we expect the editor to correct malformed code? Would you expect your editor to correct this malformed code? result = sin(x+)y Why should broken indentation be held to a higher standard than any other breakage in code? -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
