On 2006-08-10 07:40:01, Stephen Kellett wrote:
> To answer your first question: In C++/Ruby/Pascal you'd have something
> like this
>
> function()
> {
> loop1()
> {
> [...]
> }
> }
> I really dislike that the end of loop2 is implicit rather than
> explicit.
Since in the above languages indentation is optional but you still use it
(and even may use a program that provides the correct indentation if the
coder didn't do it), what prevents you from adding optional end-markers in
Python? They are not required, but they are not forbidden either, very
similar to the indenting in the above languages. Something like this:
function()
loop1()
blah
blah
loop2()
blah
loop3()
blah
#end loop3()
blah3
#end loop2()
#end loop1()
otherloop()
blah
#end otherloop()
#end function()
Of course, few people will write like this, but it probably is easier to
write a Python code formatter that adds them than it is to write a C code
formatter that adds proper indentation and provides your preferred
placement of braces.
Gerhard
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