Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote: > I'm not rejecting indenting. I'm just trying to have one conversation at a > time. > > The two downsides that *I* see to indenting are: > > 1. In an expression language it's a little trickier to implement, and > I need to think that through before I "buy in". I am encouraged that > F# has made it work. > 2. It seems to break cut and paste pretty badly, and it does seem to > make auto-indenting much harder. The emacs python mode, to me, has > some very quirky behavior. > > Certainly if we *do* use spacing as block delimiter, we will also > support explicit delimiting.
As another design point, Nemerle supports both block-oriented and indentation syntax: http://nemerle.org/Indentation-based_syntax Sandro _______________________________________________ bitc-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.coyotos.org/mailman/listinfo/bitc-dev
