On 11/2/2010 10:58 AM Seebs said...
No, they aren't.  See... That would work *if I knew for sure what the intent
was*.

        if foo:
            bar
        else:
            baz
            quux

Does it look right?  We have *no idea*, because we don't actually know
whether quux was *intended* to be in the else branch or whether that's a typo.

What is right is that there's no question that quux is subsequent to baz in all cases barring exceptions (and assuming no tabs intermixed)

The apparent structure in python _is_ the structure, whereas otherwise you've got to count your ;'s and {}'s etc to determine and verify the structure matches the apparent structure provided by the programmer.

Whether that's what the specs called for or not is always a source for bugs.

Emile




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