Op 02-09-13 11:52, Steven D'Aprano schreef: > On Mon, 02 Sep 2013 10:29:05 +0200, Antoon Pardon wrote: > >> Why should we be more >> concerned with cascading ifs than with cascading controls in general? > > What cascading controls? > > for element in seq: > if filter: > <block> > > > is not a cascading control.
Why not? > [...] >> All these discussions >> about combining controls would have been unnecessary without the >> enforced strict indentation. > > Instead, we would have spent 100 times as much time and energy debating > the One True Indentation Scheme, akin to the brace wars that went on for > *years* in the C community. And still haven't completely gone. So? Indeed there are too many people looking at these things as fighting for the one true way. That is IMO part a big part of the problem. I have no problem if someone else uses a different style than I do. Python as a language tries too hard to enforce a one true way. >> we wouldn't now be >> discussing the pro and cons of loop comprehension because we could have >> just layed out the code so that it illustrated our intention of a loop >> comprehension. > > Which the current syntax is perfectly fine at doing. Then you and I differ on what perfectly fine looks like. -- Antoon Pardon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
