"Stuart D. Gathman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Long answer: Ruby uses braces like C. As for Python, you're
> thinking of (old) Fortran, and RPG, where you had to put things into
> magic columns on your punch cards. Apparently, you haven't
> seriously looked at Python - which is "indent" dependent, not white
> space dependent.
I know perfectly well what the syntax of Python is. It is not
white-space independent; that makes it therefore white-space
dependent. I cannot break lines where I please; I cannot insert or
remove white-space where I please.
Among other things, that makes automatically-generated python a royal
PITA to generate. It also means that generating python must suddenly
be context dependent in a really ugly way: a given snippet of code
cannot simply be included anywhere; it must be very carefully indented
to match its context.
This is not modern.
> "Indent" and "Outdent" are tokens in the language with a function
> similar to braces.
Except that the lexical way to signal a brace is with the ASCII {
character. By contrast, the lexical way to signal indent and outdent
are dependent on the rest of the lexical context.
Thomas
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