ratpie! tasty. i thought a pindent was what a pinhead gets when you scone him with a frypan.
brucee On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Skip Tavakkolian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > my original suggestion for ratpy wasn't taken seriously, so i'll propose it > again: > > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.plan9/msg/29eb245edcb78e91 > > >>> I don't use Python for this very reason. This is probably why > >>> Ruby exists. I will not use your language for the same reason. > >>> By adopting such draconian white space rules you automatically > >>> alienate a large number of programmers. > >> > >> A blind programmer once told me that Python's whitespace block > >> structure was simply too high of a barrier for him to use it. > > > > straying off-topic, but ... > > > > the Python distribution includes a tool called 'pindent'. it happily > > annotates Python source with block-closing comments and converts > > haphazardly indented source with block-closing comments into > > correctly indented Python source. > > > > http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk/Tools/scripts/pindent.py > > >
