Larry Bates wrote: > Joe wrote: > >>Is Python going to support s syntax the does not use it's infamous >>whitespace rules?
Of course. I estimate it will take around 1 to 2 years from now, until this whitespace-concept will become optionally. Backwards-compatibility will be kept, thus those who love this feature will remain happy python users. Python accepts the diversity of its userbase - at least where technically possible. And in this case it is. >>I recall reading that Python might include such a >>feature. Or, maybe just a brace-to-indentation preprocessor would be >>sufficient. >> >>Many people think Python's syntax makes sense. There are strong >>feelings both ways. It must depend on a person's way of thinking, >>because I find it very confusing, even after using with Python for some >>time, and trying to believe the advice that I would learn to like it. >>The most annoying thing is that multiple dedents are very unreadable. I >>still don't understand how anybody can think significant-but-invisible >>dedentation is a good thing. >> >>Note: No need to follow up with long opinions of why indentation is >>good -- they have been posted hundreds of times. It just seems that >>Python developers think the whitespace thing is only an issue for >>newbies. I think that many experienced users don't learn to like it, >>but instead just learn to live with it. > > Characterizing indentation as "invisible" isn't really fair. [...] This has nothing to do with fairness. . -- http://lazaridis.com/core/eval/python.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
