[SLL] enforced white space

Chuck Wolber chuckw at quantumlinux.com
Thu Jan 15 18:03:16 PST 2009


On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Brian C. Lane wrote:

> All languages enforce formatting rules to one degree or another.

You mean parsing? Like with semi-colons and brackets etc? That's a 
tokenizing issue, not a formatting issue.


> In the specific case of Python using spaces to delimit blocks makes the 
> code much easier to follow in many circumstances.

That is subjective.


> You shouldn't let Python's indentation keep you from exploring the 
> language. That's kinda like throwing the baby out with the bathwater ;)

Point taken ;)


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