From: Tony Arcieri <tony@...>
Date: 2009-12-18T06:31:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Poll: Significant Indentation

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On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com> wrote:

> I agree about Haml, so I suppose  my answer to the poll must be that white
> space should always count, or never count, but not that it should sometimes
> count. (I know the question was whether I would use it, but I'm saying that
> I shouldn't have a choice, I would rather the language does or doesn't not
> implement it, without the ability to choose).
>

I guess I'm on the completely opposite side of the fence: I find the way
Python enforces indentation rather rigid and hacky.  To handle the sorts of
cases Haskell's optional indentation handles quite elegantly, Python has to
employ things like implicit line joining.

Furthermore, since Ruby is already a mature language, requiring mandatory
indentation is extremely impractical.  Indentation sensitivity in Ruby must
allow you to retrofit it into existing codebases.

-- 
Tony Arcieri
Medioh! A Kudelski Brand

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