On 02/05/2008, at 8:34 AM, Chad Dougherty wrote:
Robert William Fuller wrote:
I don't use Python for this very reason. This is probably why
Ruby exists. I will not use your language for the same reason.
By adopting such draconian white space rules you automatically
alienate a large number of programmers.
A blind programmer once told me that Python's whitespace block
structure was simply too high of a barrier for him to use it.
straying off-topic, but ...
the Python distribution includes a tool called 'pindent'. it happily
annotates Python source with block-closing comments and converts
haphazardly indented source with block-closing comments into
correctly indented Python source.
http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk/Tools/scripts/pindent.py
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