On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 1:08 AM, Neil Cerutti <ne...@norwich.edu> wrote: > On 2013-09-18, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 12:57 AM, Neil Cerutti <ne...@norwich.edu> wrote: >>> There's lots of poetry with significant indentation, though. >>> Imbuing the shape of the text on the page with significance is a >>> thing. >> >> And you can do that with C code, too. Doesn't mean that >> indentation is important to C; it means that you're layering >> different types of information into a single piece of work. >> It's like Perl code drawn in the shape of a camel - a beautiful >> hack. > > I just meant you can't condense whitespace in a poem and retain > all its meaning. It will break certain kinds of quotation styles > in publications, as well.
Sure. I'm still trying to work out if it's possible to deliver a verbal speech with fancy information in its written version... English is a fun language to tinker with! ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
