On 2011-08-12, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Chris Angelico wrote: > >> Incidentally, I will happily argue the >> benefits of Python's significant whitespace, even though I disagree >> with it; there are quite a few. > > Please be careful about conflating significant indentation with significant > whitespace. Many languages have significant whitespace: > > foo bar > > is rarely the same thing as > > foobar > > but is the same as > > foo bar > > Python is no different. > > The only exception I can think of is *very* early Fortran, and > that rightly is considered a mistake.
Early versions of Basic were like this, too. It was common to compress large C64 Basic programs by removing the spaces and substituting the command synonyms. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
