greg ha escrito: > I don't know about the other Pythonistas in this > discussion, but personally I do have experience with > Lisp, and I understand what you're saying. I have > nothing against Lisp parentheses, I just don't agree > that the Lisp way is superior to the Python way in > all respects, based on my experience with both.
Parentheses have two advantages over identation. First is they can be used both inline and block. The inline (a b (c d (e f g))) needs to be formatted in several Python lines. Therein SLiP (Python) got problems for inline mixed markup but LML (LISP) or SXML (Scheme) do not. Second is that i do not need special editors for writting/editting. It is more difficult to do identation and editing by hand in 'Notepad' that adding parens from keyboard [*]. [*] Tip. Type always () and next move your cursor inside ( _ ). You never forget a closing ) this way! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
