Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> writes: > Ben Finney wrote: > > > Likewise, “end of line as end of statement” has caused me and many > > others problems. > > I don't understand this. Can you give an example?
Many times I have split a line expecting that some bracketing syntax will cause the statement to continue across the split. I've been wrong, and the code either gave a SyntaxError or, worse, did something functional but unintended. That is a problem only because end-of-line (outside some bracketing syntax) ends a statement. My point is that I consider that problem to be at least on par in the severity of the problems caused by indentation-as-block-syntax. That is, very small compared with the great benefit of the clean and readable syntax that results. -- \ “Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential | `\ things in rationality.” —Bertrand Russell | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
