* Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn (Sun, 17 Jul 2011 14:35:15 +0200) > Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > * Andrew Berg (Sun, 17 Jul 2011 05:02:22 -0500) > >> I still don't understand. Whitespace to the left of an assignment > >> to signify an indent and whitespace around operators to align > >> values (in a multi-line assignment) are not the same. > > > > When I'm (consistently, of course) indenting code, I'm aligning it. When > > I'm aligning code, I do this by indenting it, see for instance... > > > > firstvariable = 11 > > variable = 111 > > > > firstvariable = 22 > > variable = 222 > > > > The second "=" and the "222" is indented. > > You might want to check your English dictionary. Indenting is commonly > understood in typography as "To begin (a line or lines) at a greater or less > distance from the margin"¹. In particular, in computer programming it > usually means that there is, at most, whitespace on the left of the text.² > In that sense, the above is _not_ indentation (or indenting), as neither > "variable" nor "variable =" consist only of whitespace. It is only > aligning.³
*doublesigh* that is actually the point I was trying to make. From a programmer's point of view the distinction is artificial because he does essentially the same: press the tab key or the indent button to move the stuff right from the cursor to the right so it gets aligned with the stuff above. Thorsten -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
