From: "Shot (Piotr Szotkowski)" <shot@...>
Date: 2009-05-21T05:24:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Pythonic indentation (or: beating a dead horse)

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J Haas:

> A lot of engineers who haven't done work in Python think that the idea=20
> of giving syntactical significance to whitespace is a ridiculous idea.=20
> I used to be one of them. Now I know better. Don't knock it until=20
> you've tried it.

I=E2=80=99m one of the idealists who actually loved Python=E2=80=99s idea o=
f=20
indentation, meaningful whitespace and the least possible clutter
(to the point that I actually preferred tabs to spaces =E2=80=93 that=E2=80=
=99s the=20
whole point of a tab, to *indent*), and I did write quite a few lines
of Python in my life =E2=80=93 and after all that, I=E2=80=99m now strongly=
 in the
=E2=80=98no significant whitespace=E2=80=99 camp.

I might miss my idealism, but the practical advantages of
non-significant whitespace win for me on all fronts: I can
actually use code snippets without reindenting them, badly-indented
code tells me outright that I shoudn=E2=80=99t even bother reading it, and
I can do all kinds of commenting-out/debug print calls really fast.

> Aside from the fact that this wouldn't solve the problem
> that I'd still have to _write_ the damned things

If you have to write the =E2=80=98end=E2=80=99 statements yourself (and it =
bothers you),=20
then you either don=E2=80=99t use a sane editor or didn=E2=80=99t configure=
 it properly.

=E2=80=94 Shot
--=20
A causal stroll throught lunatic asylum
shows that faith does not prove anything.

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