On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Seebs <usenet-nos...@seebs.net> wrote: > I've seen people in C do stuff like: > > for (i = 0; i < N; ++i); > a[i] = 0; > > This is clearly a case where indentation matches intent, but doesn't match > functionality, because C allows indentation to not-match functionality; this > is the famous problem Python is solving. >
There's several solutions to this. One is linting utilities that detect unexpectedly-indented code, which is the concept that Python took to the logical extent of syntactic errors. Another is (again linting) to disallow a direct trailing semicolon; if you want an empty body, you put whitespace before the semicolon. But that wasn't your point, I realise :) ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
