Paul Watson wrote: > John Machin wrote: > >> Paul Watson wrote: >> >>> Dan Sommers wrote: >>> >>>> On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 01:04:04 GMT, >>>> Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> On 13 Aug 2005 13:18:21 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed the >>>>> following >>>>> in comp.lang.python: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>> Are you kidding? You are going to MANDATE spaces? >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> After the backlash, Python 4.0 will ban leading spaces and require >>>>> tabs <G> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Why not petition the unicode people to include PYTHON INDENT and PYTHON >>>> DEDENT code points, and leave the display up to the text editors? ;-) >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Dan >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> The Unicode people will correctly point out that there is already a >>> Unicode codepoint assignment which can be used for this purpose. It >>> is even in the BMP portion of the C0 controls group. >>> >>> 0009 = HORIZONTAL TABULATION >> >> >> >> and how do you use this to get the DEDENT effect? Use something out of >> the bidirectional kit? E.g. RLO then tab then PDF ;-) > > > The use of one less HORIZONTAL TABULATION on a line in relation to the > number of HORIZONTAL TABULATION codepoints used by the pervious line > indicated "dedent" as you call it. :-) > > There are things about your suggestion that would be great! It would > require a language aware editing tool to be used. Like HTML was > intended, the rendering of the program source would be managed by the > tool. Everyone could choose the style in which they would like to > interact with the code. > > This is also the biggest problem. It would mean that a specialized > editor tool would be required. One could not just use a POTE (Plain Old > Text Editor). > > Using U+0009 HORIZONTAL TABULATION would provide both user selectable > rendering style as well as access through most existing tools. > > Of course, there is always 'expand' and 'unexpand' if you are really > desparate.
OK Paul, you've convinced me. I look forward to your PEP "Mandated U+0009 HORIZONTAL TABULATION in Python source". Cheers, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
