Re: PEP8 needs revision

2016-06-15 Thread Ethan Furman
On 06/15/2016 12:18 PM, Kyle Thomas wrote: Knuth's quote refers to the output of TeX, the programming language he authored. The quote cannot be interpreted to speak about formatting of source-code. PEP 8 is primarily concerned with the readability of source code, so if Knuth was speaking abou

Re: PEP8 needs revision

2016-06-15 Thread Random832
On Wed, Jun 15, 2016, at 15:18, Kyle Thomas wrote: > To Whom It May Concern, > Knuth's quote refers to the output of TeX, the programming language he > authored. The quote cannot be interpreted to speak about formatting of > source-code. It speaks about what is more readable, and is mentioned in

PEP8 needs revision

2016-06-15 Thread Kyle Thomas
To Whom It May Concern, Knuth's quote refers to the output of TeX, the programming language he authored. The quote cannot be interpreted to speak about formatting of source-code. One bit of evidence I can offer is that TeX's source only cares about multiple newlines in considering the multiplicity