"Antoon Pardon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > 1) It makes it hard to see how many levels are dedented at the end of > a suite, and sometime makes it difficult to see where the end > of a suite is. If e.g. you are looking at the code spread over > two pieces of paper, it is sometimes hard to see whether the > suite ends at the end of the first page or not.
One can use appropriately indented comment lines instead of closing brackets for this purpose. > 2) It makes it hard to introduce some kind of new syntax constructs. I consider this as much a plus as a minus ;-) > 3) Sometimes the structure of the algorithm is not the structure > of the code as written, people who prefer that the indentation > reflects the structure of the algorithm instead of the structure > of the code, are forced to indent wrongly. Do you have any simple examples in mind? Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
