On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote: > On 2013-04-08, Walter Hurry <walterhu...@lavabit.com> wrote: >> The fact of Python enforcing it (or all tabs; a poor second choice) >> is *a good thing*, easy and natural IMHO. No need for "end if" or >> "end loop" or "fi". One wonders whether OP is simply trolling. > > If he was trolling, he certainly deserves a prize.
I don't think he was trolling. It was a classic-model rant: "I upgraded my dependency to a newer version and all my stuff broke". Commonly provokes anger, largely because many such upgrades do NOT break stuff (eg if I were to switch from gcc 4.5 to gcc 4.7 right now, I doubt anything would break, and my code would be able to use the new iterator syntax in c++11 - pity 4.7 isn't packaged for Debian Squeeze). The OP upgraded across an openly-non-backward-compatible boundary, and got angry over one particular aspect of backward compat that wasn't there. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list