On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 11:37:03AM +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Nov 2010 12:01:06 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
> > In message <ianem3$cu...@reader1.panix.com>, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
> >> Other languages have similar problems if you remove salient bits of
> >> syntax before comparing two source files files.
> >
> > But other languages don???t make those ???salient bits of syntax???
> > invisible.
> > I.e. they are actually ???salient???.
>
> (1) Indentation is visible. Compare:
>
>
> This line has leading visible whitespace.
>
> This line has leading invisible characters.
>
> See the difference?
Unless, your code is split over different pages, as when it is printed in a
book.
You also need to see the next piece of code to notice the dedention.
e.g. I have the following code at the bottom of my editor.
for i := 0 to 9 do
some(code);
more(code);
end;
I can by just looking at this code notice that I'm looking at the whole for
block.
But when I have similar python code at the bottom of the page.
for i in xrange(10):
some(code)
more(code)
Then I can't make out whether I'm looking at the whole for suite or not.
Indentation may be visible, but it is not context-free visible, It only
becomes visible by looking by introducing context. So because it is only
visible by looking at the context I would say the end of a block i made
implicitly and not explicitly
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Antoon Pardon
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