On 2010-04-10, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote: > In message <hpokef$gv...@reader1.panix.com>, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> On 2010-04-10, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> >> wrote: >> >>> In message <hpoh5j$35...@reader1.panix.com>, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> >>>> Anybody who invents another brace-delimited language should be beaten. >>>> You always end up with a big problem trying to make sure the braces >>>> are consistent with the program logic. >> >>> Would you prefer ???begin??? and ???end??? word symbols, then? >> >> Nope, I categorize those as nothing more than verbose "braces". > > But since those symbols already, by definition, directly correspond to > program logic, where exactly does the ?big problem? arise trying to make > sure they are ?consistent with the program logic??
The same goes for indentation. In python it's not possible to write a program to correctly indent code that isn't alaready correctly indented. In a brace delimited language it's not possible to write a program to correctly place braces in an "incorrectly braced" program. In either: if it is already correct, it's trivial to transform it into another correct program with a different "style". -- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
