On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 22:48:07 -0400
Paul Stadig <p...@stadig.name> wrote:
> Then I move on to thinking it best for a language designer to just legislate
> fomatting and make it a compiler error, but that would probably generate
> more discussion than otherwise, so I've just written the whole thing off as
> a lose-lose situation. But maybe I'm just getting cumudgenly in my old age.
You could argue that this is the route that ABC/Python took -
formatting, not punctuation, dictates flow control. Broken formatting
generates compiler errors:
python /tmp/break.py
File "/tmp/break.py", line 3
print 4
^
IndentationError: unexpected indent
So people argue about putting back the punctuation instead of where
the punctuation goes. Not quite as much, but it still happens.
<mike
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