> It more the language designers choice of applying syntactic significance to > whitespace.
All languages have significant whitespace. The parser (at least the tokenizer) pays attention to some, the human reader to some more. Python just removes a source of ambiguity in formatting. If the whitespace doesn't carry this meaning, something else must. Such as braces. How many people still wear braces in an era of elastic and good belts? > I believe python has this polarizing effect amongst many. Yes, very strange. > http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=555 They make a number of points that would seem to support Python's approach to formatting, and then state that they just don't like it, because it would seem to violate some small detail of their personal style guide. I find it just as sensible to dislike a language because it uses "if .. fi" instead of "if .. endif" or "if .. begin .. end". -- jean . .. .... //\\\oo///\\ _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
