On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 6:47 PM, Antoon Pardon <antoon.par...@rece.vub.ac.be> wrote: > On 04/16/2015 09:46 AM, alister wrote: > >> what I find strange is that although these programmers initially disliked >> forced indentation they were voluntarily indenting there existing code >> anyway. Take a look at your existing code base & see if this would indeed >> be the case. > > The problem is that the logical structure one has in one's head is not always > the same as the physical structure one has to implement in. I prefer the > indentation of my program to reflect the former instead of the latter. That > is impossible in python.
I agree, but as it turns out, the number of times when this actually makes a difference are diminishingly few. The most warpedly correct indentation I've ever done was in PHP, where I used a triply-nested structure of switch/case blocks to simulate a logical structure that in Python would simply be a series of top-level functions - or *maybe* a series of class definitions with methods in them. So if I were doing the same logical structure in Python, I wouldn't mind the indentation matching the physical structure, because it'd be sufficiently close. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
