Terry Reedy wrote:
On 5/3/2010 7:46 PM, cjw wrote:
Nobody likes indentation at first,
Speak for yourself, please. For two decades before I met Python, I
indented code nicely whenever it was allowed. That option was one of
the great advancements of Fortran77 over FortranIV. Coming from C, I
was immediately glad to be done with those darn braces.
tjr
Right. Somewhere in the 80's I read a paper in sigplan which
demonstrated that indentation-only was sufficient to communicate the
structure of a program. I immediately *knew* that was the right way
to go. Sadly, I had to wait a decade or so before discovering Python in
the mid 90's, but I never forgot that paper nor lost my eager
anticipation waiting for language design to catch up with that idea.
Gary Herron
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