From: Caleb Clausen <vikkous@...>
Date: 2009-06-04T10:10:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Pythonic indentation (or: beating a dead horse)

On 6/3/09, Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@games-with-brains.com> wrote:
> On 3 Jun 2009, at 17:30, Marc Heiler wrote:
>> What does "meta-programming" NEED to have to do anything
>> with indent at all?
>
> Because if indentation becomes significant it's important that it
> doesn't break any central feature of Ruby, and my gut feeling (which I
> concede may be totally misguided) is that the area where such breakage
> is most likely to occur will be meta-programming. So whilst it may not
> have anything to do with the matter at all, determining whether or not
> that is the case is still an important consideration. At least for me.

So why metaprogramming, particularly? Ahhh, is it because code
generators may not take care to indent their generated code properly?
I know I've written code generators that do that...