On 2013-09-18, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 12:57 AM, Neil Cerutti <ne...@norwich.edu> wrote: >> There's lots of poetry with significant indentation, though. >> Imbuing the shape of the text on the page with significance is a >> thing. > > And you can do that with C code, too. Doesn't mean that > indentation is important to C; it means that you're layering > different types of information into a single piece of work. > It's like Perl code drawn in the shape of a camel - a beautiful > hack.
I just meant you can't condense whitespace in a poem and retain all its meaning. It will break certain kinds of quotation styles in publications, as well. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
