From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2007-05-19T01:19:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Why not adopt "Python Style" indentation for Ruby?

On 5/18/07, Eric Mahurin <eric.mahurin@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/18/07, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> I've picked up on python in the last couple months and like the
> indentation.   In addition to forced readablity, I find another
> practical benefit is that it eliminates hard to track down syntax
> errors due to matching {}, begin/end, etc.  In ruby, C, perl, etc
> these errors can be painful to track down in a large file with lots of
> blocks within blocks.

Scope indicated by whitespace is an indication, IMO, that the compiler
thinks that it knows better than you do.

Always a mistake.

I want a programming language that works how I do; I don't want to
have to work how a stupid programming language requires it.

(I sometimes put debug statements flush left so that it's a simple
/^p<CR> to search for them. Can't do that with scope controlled by
whitespace. Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb.)

-austin
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