On 6/3/2014 5:49 PM, Mark H Harris wrote:
I have been engaged in a minor flame debate (locally) over block
delimiters (or lack thereof) which I'm loosing. Locally, people hate
python's indentation block delimiting, and wish python would adopt
curly braces. I do not agree, of course; however, I am noticing when
new languages come out they either use END (as in Julia) or they
propagate the curly braces paradigm as in C. The issue locally is
trying to pass code snippets around the net informally is a problem
with indentation. My reply is, well, don't do that. For what I see as
a freedom issue, folks want to format their white space (style) their
way and don't want to be forced into an indentation paradigm that is
rigid (or no so much!).
the only problem I have with indentation defining blocks is that it's
hard to cut and paste code and make it fit the right block level
automatically. Too many times of made the mistake of one or two lines
off by one or two levels of indentation and somehow the code doesn't
work as I thought it would :-) It's also making it difficult to generate
code automatically.
On the other hand, curly braces are royal pain to dictate or navigate
around when programming with speech recognition.
--- eric
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