From: Markus <markus@...>
Date: 2004-10-12T02:40:49+09:00
Subject: Re: quality of error messages

> >>     That said, it really doesn't hurt as bad as you'd think it would,
> >>since the main thing people differ on is where to put the closing token
> >>(e.g., does the "end" or "}" go at the indentation of the enclosed block
> >>or the inclosing block) and that issue vanishes if you don't have closing
> >>tokens.  

> > I don't find it readable at all.

> I completely, 100%, in every way, concur with Austin. I detest any 
> attempt to enforce an arbitrary indentation style upon me. 

     No one is trying to enforce anything on anyone here.  No one is
even trying to make you eat green eggs and ham.

     I had just been trying to explain (in response, as I recall, to a
question of some sort) how people who use python (and other
salient-structure languages) see the world; they aren't brain damaged 
mutants (at least in my opinion), nor are they enslaved masses being
"forced" to use python.

     Some people actually like it, and their reasons are fairly
explicable, just as the reasons for liking (say) perl or smalltalk or
lisp or ruby or forth or...well, you get the point.  There's no harm
that I can see in trying to understand someone else's perspective, even
if you don't share it. 

    -- Markus