I don't like the actual proposal. It weirdly combines almost orthogonal concepts into the same block statement. Obviously matters other than indent level are important too (notwithstanding my sincere digression into my bête noire).
Nested blocks are an excellent way to express roughly orthogonal ideas. On Mon, Feb 8, 2021, 2:18 AM Christopher Barker <[email protected]> wrote: > bringing this back (closer to) on lopic: > > Are you suggesting that we add syntax to Python that makes it easier to > keep the number of levels of indentation down? > > Because when you have a method in a class, you've already lost 1/10 or > your line. then you have a for, and an if, and a with, and you've used up > 5/8 of the line. > > However, if you are talking about the readability of and individual not-so > long line, then I'd say you can ignore the 8 spaces that got you into the > method, and we're now at a 88 char line :-) > > -Chris B > > > On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 11:09 PM Chris Angelico <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 6:04 PM David Mertz <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > There's a reason that never in the last 3800 years since Proto-Sinaitic >> was the first human script to approximately represent phonemes, has text >> EVER been set at more than 80 characters as a widespread convention. >> > >> >> What did they use as a tab width though? >> >> ChrisA >> _______________________________________________ >> Python-ideas mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ >> Message archived at >> https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/2KGKLH54CIKZ2EB6ZDPIXJ745FZKW45C/ >> Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >> > > > -- > Christopher Barker, PhD (Chris) > > Python Language Consulting > - Teaching > - Scientific Software Development > - Desktop GUI and Web Development > - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/GZY32QBKLNSA6TFUZI7HRW2EQCWMQO2U/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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