From: Juan Zanos <juan_zanos@...>
Date: 2009-05-20T23:03:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Pythonic indentation (or: beating a dead horse)


On May 19, 2009, at 5:40 PM, J Haas wrote:
> My friends, when ONE OUT OF EVERY SIX of your code lines consists of
> just the word "end", you have a problem with conciseness. I

Yes, it's a problem.  There is no point in pretending otherwise. The  
language
would be even better if this issue were solved. It sounds like it  
could be
adequately solved with some type of meaningful indentation.

It doesn't seem like it has to be one way or another.  You could have
meaningful indentation and still use end for ambiguous cases.  That  
would be
nice.  This would also be consistent with Ruby's optional parens for  
function
use and declaration.  Backward compatibility would also make it  
possible to
make the transition.