On 04/16/2015 11:34 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: > 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.
I beg to differ. The most common occurence is a loop with a break condition in the middle I would prefer such a loop to be written as follows: repeat: some code break_when condition: more code Actually I would prefer a more elaborate scheme but would be contend with a possibility like the above. IMO this is the most occuring pattern where the logical structure doesn't match the physical structure and it is not occuring relevantly less now. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list