Re: Ohnoes significant whitespace (was: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications)

2016-02-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-02-19, Ben Finney wrote: > So I am sympathetic to Python newcomers recoiling in horror from > significant whitespace, *before* they try it. And because of that, we > are burdened with forever needing to deal with that reaction and > soothing it. The first time I wrote Python (it was the

Re: Ohnoes significant whitespace

2016-02-18 Thread Marko Rauhamaa
Ben Finney : > So I am sympathetic to Python newcomers recoiling in horror from > significant whitespace, *before* they try it. And because of that, we > are burdened with forever needing to deal with that reaction and > soothing it. I remember being *very* doubtful how the whitespace would work