justin bengtson wrote: > when i was mulling over learning perl or python, one thing that drew me > to python was the strict whitespace rules. the theory being that python > will _always_ look the same. and then Cory pointed out to me that perl > ignores whitespace, so it can be as pretty or as groady as you want. i > don't know about current python, but anything that *forces* me to write > code in a certain way isn't really my thing.
Yeah, sure, for a one man project, you don't need no steenking indentation rules. But think how nice it would be if you never had to grok through any other hacker's steaming pile of lazy formatting. The bigger the projects you work on, the more this matters. But it's a rare and antisocial hacker who reads his own code more than others'. It's a lot like the GPL vs BSD license. The GPL seems onerous if you think of it as, "I have to release all my changes". But if you think of it as, "Everybody will have to give me all their changes," it looks a whole lot better. -- Bob Miller K<bob> kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
