On 2013-09-13, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 5:32 AM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: >> Poetry, including that in English, often *is* concerned with formatting. >> Code is more like poetry than prose. >> >> >>> You can take this >>> paragraph of text, unwrap it, and then reflow it to any width you >>> like, without materially changing my points. >> >> >> But you cannot do that with poetry! > > Evangelical vicar in want of a portable second-hand font. Would > dispose, for the same, of a portrait, in frame, of the Bishop-elect of > Vermont. > > I think you could quite easily reconstruct the formatting of > that, based on its internal structure. Even in poetry, English > doesn't depend on its formatting nearly as much as Python does; > and even there, it's line breaks, not indentation - so we're > talking more like REXX than Python. In fact, it's not uncommon > for poetry to be laid out on a single line with slashes to > divide lines:
There's lots of poetry with significant indentation, though. Imbuing the shape of the text on the page with significance is a thing. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
