From: Juan Zanos <juan_zanos@...>
Date: 2009-05-21T01:33:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Pythonic indentation (or: beating a dead horse)


On May 20, 2009, at 11:51 AM, Rick DeNatale wrote:

> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:05 AM, J Haas <Myrdred@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On May 19, 4:49 pm, Eric Hodel <drbr...@segment7.net> wrote:
>>> Does anybody complain about terminating '}' in C, C++ or Java?
>>
>> I do, now. Redundancy irritates me.
>>
>>>  Does anybody complain about terminating '.' on sentences?
>>
>> If the period accounted for one-sixth of English text, perhaps they
>> would.
>
> wellwhydontwegetridofallpunctuationthingslikespacescommassemicolonsquotesetcperiodcertainlytakeupmuchmoreofourprosethantheydeserveandcapitalizationeatsupvaluableverticalspaceandnoneedforparagraphseparationeither
>
> Seriously, if you measure things by avoiding extra keystrokes, get a
> better editor.  I value readability over parsimony of lexical items.
>
>
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That would be a valid criticism if J Haas's suggestion made things  
less readable.   But having to scroll less makes things more readable.