On 8/22/2014 7:28 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> writes:
By posting code with an extra indent, you make it imposible to run by
just cutting and pasting. You should already know that.
I commonly do that,
It is unnecessary and extra work on both ends. It is also ambiguous in
that there may be a missing unindented line.
> as I do with most block quotes in plain text.
Code is not text, especially not python code.
Indents do not change the meaning of text.
> I think it's a reasonable expectation that programmers, reading a
> forum about program code, will have at hand a programmer's editor
> capable of stripping a level of indentation from a block of code.
Well yes, people here generally have Idle at hand, which can do it
easily. However, it is unreasonable (and counterfactual -- see other
thread today) to expect everyone to know that, or remember if they ever
did know. It also requires that one get *all* the indentation and not
miss the first space.
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