Is it perhaps time to take this argument off-list? Just a thought.
Patrick
On Fri, 28 May 2004, Steve Lamb wrote:
:s. keeling wrote:
:> Indentation is syntactical in python. No, I don't know why.
:
: Better to ask why in most other languages there are two syntaxes. One for
:the computer, one for the human.
:
: This is legal:
:if (foo){bar;}lese{baz;}
:
: So is this:
:if (foo)
:{
:bar;
:}
:else
:{
:baz;
:}
:
: But we're taught to do this (or something like it):
:if (foo)
:{
: bar;
:}
:else
:{
: baz;
:]
:
: So make the machine read that like the human does and take out the
:portions the machine needs and what are you left with?
:
:if (foo)
: bar
:else
: baz
:
: If we're taught to code that way *anyway* then we should make it
:significant because it is.
:
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