Op 2005-05-16, Bengt Richter schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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.
But what is a training wheel depends on your point of view. IMO the required indentation is more like permanent training wheels than end block-markers would be. A structure in general has a begin marker and an end marker. Even python has them in some cases like lists and tuples. -- Antoon Pardon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
