Antoon Pardon wrote:
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.
These code pieces are not equivalent -- you have four lines of code in
the first piece, only three lines in the python piece; in other words,
if the "end;" were not on screen, you would still have no idea if it was
the whole block or not; in still other words, the "end;", just like the
dedented line, provides the context.
~Ethan~
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