From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2009-05-22T07:29:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Pythonic indentation (or: beating a dead horse)


On May 20, 2009, at 15:28 , Tony Arcieri wrote:

> And I guess I just can't shut up about this: your solution would  
> require a
> scanner with some degree of grammatical awareness for every  
> expression which
> contains an indent block.  When you start talking about a solution  
> like
> that, I really think you're going down a rabbit hole.

To be fair, if you looked at ruby's lexer and parser you'd know that  
we're already down a rabbit hole. Your statement completely ignores  
the complexity already inherent in the language.

Don't chalk me up as a proponent of this idea as I've written more  
than my fair share of python and hate the language (and especially the  
libraries).