Edward Elliott wrote: > What really should happen is that every time an editor reads in source code, > the code is reformatted for display according to the user's settings. The > editor becomes a parser, breaking the code down into tokens and emitting it > in a personally preferred format.
I completely agree, and I guess that is what I was groping towards in my remarks about using modern editing tools. At the same time I would be resist any move towards making source files less huiman-readable. There will still be times when those tools aren't available (e.g. for people working on embedded s/w or legacy systems), and that's when having ASCII source with tabbed indentation would be so useful. But it looks, sadly, like we're fighting a rearguard action on that one. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
