Andre Engels wrote:
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 4:35 PM, James Mills
<prolo...@shortcircuit.net.au> wrote:
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 12:21 AM, Ed Keith <e_...@yahoo.com> wrote:
To deal with indentation I had to
1) keep track of indentation of all chunks of code embedded in the
document and indent inserted chunks to the sum of all the
indentation of the enclosing chunks.
In my experience of non-indentation sensitive languages
such as C-class (curly braces) it's just as hard to keep track
of opening and closing braces.
Although I have little or no experience with this, I still dare to say
that I don't agree. The difference is that in C you do not _need_ to
know where in the braces-defined hierarchy you are. You just embed or
change a piece of code at the right location. In Python however you
_do_ need to know how far your code is to be indented.
And how do you know where the right location is? You have to figure it
out from the different (nested) braces at the 'right' location. For me,
at least, it's much easier to get that information from the already
indented Python code, as opposed to indenting (and double-checking the
indents) on the braces language.
~Ethan~
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