On Wednesday, 30 April 2014 at 06:12:24 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Wednesday, 30 April 2014 at 01:46:21 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
indentation rules. All it can do, and indeed all is *does* do,
is blindly assume that the indentation as presented is correct
and adheres to the universal style. If something is indented
wrong, there is no enforcement, only bugs.
Not blindly. Python will complain if the indentation does not
make sense. I very seldom run into indentation issues now, but
had some when I was new to Python. Just like C's syntax, it
takes some time getting used to.
Say you have a Python file with 500 lines of code. Try to copy
and paste something with a different indentation from somewhere
else into an if statement. You'll have to clean up before you can
test the program. This kind of patronizing bullshit was invented
for non-programmers who might make a mess of the code otherwise.
Any programmer will structure and clean up the code once s/he's
happy with it. Indentationists seem to assume that you cannot
indent in C-style languages or if it is not prescribed, people
will make a mess of it (which is patronizing fascist thinking).
In D you can do this:
if (mode == "TEST") { // Second block added later
if (x == 1) { // First block
writeln("Hurray!");
}
}
In my opinion, this helps to test and bypass etc. things while
debugging. Often I don't keep them, and if I do, I clean them up
immediately as soon as I'm happy with it. In Python you have to
clean up, even if it's just for 2 minutes of debugging / testing.
Not to mention the nightmare of merging Python files with
different indentation levels or styles (tab vs. space).
