On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Seebs <usenet-nos...@seebs.net> writes:
>> I've seen bits of code in preprocessing-based "Python with {}" type
>> things, and they still look like Python to me, only they favor
>> explicit over implicit a little more strongly.
>
> They introduce unnecessary ambiguity: the indentation-as-structure and
> braces-as-structure can then disagree.
>
> The ambiguity is resolved by having exactly one of indentation or braces
> determining structure: Python uses indentation. In which case, braces
> are pointless for indicating block structure.That's why it wouldn't be Python. It would have to use the braces and not the indentation. ChrisA PS. I mistakenly sent this to a Gilbert & Sullivan group first. Oddly enough, opera-goers are not used to discussing the relative merits of braces vs indentation in code. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
