From: Tony Arcieri Date: 2009-05-21T16:02:29+09:00 Subject: Re: Pythonic indentation (or: beating a dead horse) --0016e644cee00ca561046a66ba17 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Bill Kelly wrote: > My preferences are opposite to Guido's, above. A flexible > lambda, for instance, is *far* more important to me than > what I consider to be a minor nuisance of nested 'end' > statements. (And non-nested 'end' statements don't bother > me at all. Some percentage of extra scrolling in the > editor isn't of any relative importance to me.) Well, to be fair to Guido, in the case of Python it already has indent-based syntax. The language is already structured in a way that precludes indent blocks in expressions, and to him the problem of adding multi-line indented expressions is a far more difficult tradeoff as compared to changing some fundamental assumptions of the language. However, to a Rubyist, taking away multi-line blocks would be a cardinal sin... -- Tony Arcieri medioh.com --0016e644cee00ca561046a66ba17--