Re: Ohnoes significant whitespace (was: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications)

2016-02-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-02-19, Ben Finney wrote: > So I am sympathetic to Python newcomers recoiling in horror from > significant whitespace, *before* they try it. And because of that, we > are burdened with forever needing to deal with that reaction and > soothing it. The first time I wrote Python (it was the

Ohnoes significant whitespace (was: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications)

2016-02-18 Thread Ben Finney
Chris Angelico writes: > I'm talking about how people, those bags of flesh and thoughts, are > bugged out by the notion that *whitespace* should matter (other than > the mere presence/absence of it). It's the price you pay for being > different - people will have trouble comprehending you. To be