Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * 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.
Well, you said you would "align code *by indenting*", which is either nonsense following the not-so-uncommon definition of "indenting" that I presented, or you chose a particularly bad example to make your point (as it does not feature indentation at all). > From a programmer's point of view the distinction is artificial because he > does essentially the same: press the tab key But he should not, unless he uses the Tab key to insert spaces, because the *display width* of the Tab *character* is variable. *That* is the point! > or the indent button to move the stuff right from the cursor to the right > so it gets aligned with the stuff above. "Indent button"? -- PointedEars Bitte keine Kopien per E-Mail. / Please do not Cc: me. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
