Any nesting beyond third level should be strong candidate for refactoring. Soon after you do that, big surprise, refactored block gets better documented, gets used elsewhere, becomes testable on its own, etc. I.e. if structure is not obvious from indentation alone, refactoring is the proper solution, not braces.
Also deeply nested structures tend to involve variables in the deepest levels that are also used in the outer levels, making the scope of variables harder to manage (leading to similar bugs as result from use of global variables). So languages that do not require braces for code blocks encourage refactoring, and hence clearer code structure, separation of concerns, isolation of namespaces, etc. On Mon, May 22, 2017, 09:31 Cholo Lennon <chololen...@hotmail.com> wrote: > On 22/05/17 00:53, Steve D'Aprano wrote: > > The creator of Scala, Martin Odersky, has proposed introducing > Python-like > > significant indentation to Scala and getting rid of braces: > > > > I was playing for a while now with ways to make Scala's syntax > > indentation-based. I always admired the neatness of Python syntax > > and also found that F# has benefited greatly from its optional > > indentation-based syntax, so much so that nobody seems to use > > the original syntax anymore. > > > > https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty/issues/2491 > > > > > > > > From the link: > > "Impediments > > What are the reasons for preferring braces over indentations? > > Provide visual clues where constructs end. With pure indentation based > syntax it is sometimes hard to tell how many levels of indentation are > terminated at some point... " > > I am a huge python fan (but also a C++ and Java fan) and I agree with > Scala creator, sometimes the readability is complicated. So, more often > than I would like to, I end up missing the braces :-O > > > -- > Cholo Lennon > Bs.As. > ARG > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- Oliver My StackOverflow contributions My CodeProject articles My Github projects My SourceForget.net projects -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
