On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:04:06 +0200, Antoon Pardon wrote: > Op 10-09-13 12:20, Chris Angelico schreef: >> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> >> wrote: >>> What design mistakes, traps or gotchas do you think Python has? >>> Gotchas are not necessarily a bad thing, there may be good reasons for >>> it, but they're surprising. >> >> Significant indentation. It gets someone every day, it seems. >> >> > Not only that. There are a lot of python code snippets on the net that > for whatever reason lost their indentation. There is no algorithm that > can restore the lost structure.
Is there an algorithm that will restore the lost structure if you delete all the braces from C source code? Perhaps if web sites and mail clients routinely deleted braces, we'd see the broken-by-design software being fixed instead of blaming the language. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
