Zeljko Vrba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> On 2005-12-10, Tom Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> ED IS THE STANDARD TEXT EDITOR. >> > And: > INDENTATION > SUCKS > BIG > TIME. > > Using indentation without block termination markers is opposite > of the way we write spoken language, terminating each sentence > with . Ever wondered why we use such things in written language, > when people are much better in guessing what the writer wanted > to say then computers? > I believe I may have seen cases in written "spoken language" where paragraphs were indented, or otherwise separated with whitespace. It's even possible that I've seen some examples of written languages that use no periods at all! And what's more, I've seen more than one *computer* language that uses no terminating periods! Why, it boggles the mind. Despite the arguments advanced by those whose previous computer languages used braces and semicolons, there actually are more ways to separate complete statements than with punctuation. Make a grocery list. Do you terminate each item with punctuation? Write a headline for a newspaper. Is punctuation always included? Read a mediaeval manuscript. Do you find punctuation? Whitespace? How about Egyptian hieroglyphs, Chinese ideograms, Ogham runes? Because you're accustomed to one set of conventions, you may find Python's set strange at first. Please try it, and don't fight it. See if your objections don't fade away. If you're like most Python newbies, you'll stop thinking about brackets before long, and if you're like a lot of us, you'll wonder what those funny squiggles mean when you are forced to revert to one of those more primitive languages. -- rzed -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
