Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have one grudge against python, though: its mandated indentation looks > very ugly and unstructured to me. Kinda reminds me of COBOL (and boy, do > I have nightmares of having to write COBOL code at school)
Well, I often heared about this argument, but in my experience, it always boiled down to whether the person asserting it had already tried Python (as opposed to only heared about the usual rumours). If you think that programs are to be written by humans, the indentation feature seems to me to be the *obvious choice*, as long you have access to a decent text editor. Proper indentation with spaces is not at all sloppy, ambiguous, or whatever you may come with. It just gives immediate visual, reliable feedback about what the code *means*, in the case where it defines syntactic blocks. Sorry, but the more I program in Python, the clearer the impression I get that all those block delimeters are only intended for people who don't bother using a real text editor or for programs that generate code and don't want to go the the hassle of indenting it. -- Florent
