On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Chris Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Kang Ghee Keong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I thought the attractive part of Python has always been the whitespace! > > Actually not just whitespace. Python has OOP (and a pretty clean one at > that), Perl... > > > Teaches everyone to respect indentation in programming. Aids > readability, > > eh? > > > > But I'm a Java, C++, PHP, Ruby type of guy, so I'm actually quite used to > > braces. And even so, our experience in training young minds in > programming, > > shows that indentation is always a secondary, hence, unimportant, getting > > the job done is the most important. > > Now whitespace gets the jobs done instead of braces. ;) > > > > > But the best programmers will know that readability is also key. > > > > So if this is about readability, I'd readily vote for Python. (at the > > sacrifice of more keystrokes to indent of course) > > Not more keystrokes. With emacs, the keystrokes is the same. Almost... The > difference is instead of closing }, you untab (I consider that 1 keystroke > d: ) > > > > > Ever considered Scheme and LISP? Only brackets. Is that better? > > Scheme is beautiful! The braces aligns nicely (turning off plaintext for > the sake of demonstration): > > (define (reverse lis) > (define (helper lis rev-lis) > (if (empty? list) Of course I meant (empty? lis) here. > > rev-lis > (helper (cdr lis) (cons (car lis) rev-lis)))) > (helper lis nil)) > > Cheers, > > > > > > KANG Ghee Keong > > > > > > > > > > Deepak Sarda wrote: > >> > >> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Michael Clark < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> I'm holding off learning python until it gets curly braces and forgets > >>> about > >>> whitespace... > >>> > >>> > >> > >> >From a python shell, try: > >> > >> > >>>>> > >>>>> from __future__ import braces > >>>>> > >> > >> > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Slugnet mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq > > http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet > > > > > > -- > Chris > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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