Javascript also lets you break lines. For example, this does what you want:
return 1
+ 5
Whereas this does not
return
1 + 5
Of course, Python would have no such problem, because you could make both
cases unambiguous due to the indent.
Devin
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Paul Colomiets <p...@colomiets.name> wrote:
> Hi Matt,
>
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Matt Joiner <anacro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > +0.5
> >
> > The "trailing \" workaround is nonobvious. Wrapping in () is noisy and
> > already heavily used by other syntactical structures. Since a final
> > ':' is needed anyway, i think this would be great.
> >
> > if a
> > and b
> > or c:
> > do stuff()
> >
> If you really think so, try writing some coffeescript (remember to
> obey 79 chars limit). Coffeescript is amasing, but it lacks
> strictness of python. So you really don't know how to break line,
> and it really takes time to figure out right way each time you need
> it.
>
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