Jason wrote: > He points out that if some code gets accidentally dedented, it is > difficult for another programmer to determine which lines were supposed > to be in the indented block. I pointed out that if someone > accidentally moves a curly brace, the same problem can occur.
I like significant whitespace, but a forum, newsgroup manager (like Google Groups in the beginning), email management program, blog comment system, etc, may strip leading whitespace, and it usually doesn't "move" braces. A language (like Python) doesn't exist alone in vacuum, it exists in an ecosystem of many other programs/systems, and if they don't manage leading whitespace well, such language may have some problems :-) Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
