In message <mailman.497.1288703990.2218.python-l...@python.org>, Emile van Sebille wrote:
> On 11/1/2010 4:22 PM Lawrence D'Oliveiro said... > >> In message<mailman.465.1288653523.2218.python-l...@python.org>, Emile van >> Sebille wrote: >> >>> At least you can look at python code and _know_ that spurious placement >>> of required line noise don't have the ability to impact what the code >>> does. >> >> But it does. What is spurious whitespace if not noise, after all? > > But it does so by intent. Other languages lend only an appearance of > structure through the indentation style of the writer. No, the indentation is there to make the structure clearer, not to act as a substitute for the structure. Try to conflate the two, and you end up with problems such as we are discussing. > It's as good as outdated comments. Outdated comments are a bug like any other, and should be fixed. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
