On Apr 20, 5:42 pm, Matthew Woodcraft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I feel that including some optional means to block code would be a big > >> step in getting wider adoption of the language in web development and > >> in general. I do understand though, that the current strict indenting > >> is part of the core of the language, so... thoughts? > > Why should Python repeat the mistakes other languages did with SSI or > > <?php ?> inline code? Python favors the MVC separation of code and layout. > > An alternative scheme for describing the block structure could be > useful in other cases, though. For example, if you wanted to support > putting snippets of Python in configuration files, or spreadsheet > cells. > > There's no need to support the new scheme in .py files, so it seems to > me that this doesn't have to be done in the core language. All that's > needed is a variant of 'eval' which expects the alternate scheme, and > that could be prototyped just using text manipulation and the normal > 'eval'.
By 'eval', I guess you mean 'exec' :) -- Arnaud -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
