On Mon, 16 May 2005 18:40:43 +0200, Stefan Nobis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>rbt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> True beginners (no programming experience whatsoever) don't have >> to deal with unlearning stuff such as the bracket plague. > >That's true. But they also not very used to give nothing (-> >whitespace) a meaning. I teached quite some beginners and most of >them had problems to get the indentation right. > >At least in the very beginning IMHO it would be useful to >explicitly end a block with some kind of an end statement. > >Meaningful whitespache is not a big problem (as many people seems >to think) but it's also not very obvious and sometimes it causes >at least a little bit trouble. > Training wheels do no belong as a permanent part of a bicycle, IMO. If you want to show newbies Python code with block bracketing, please program up a suitable code viewer for them ;-) Regards, Bengt Richter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
