On 3/17/13 5:15 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote:
Python takes its indentation very personal.
What is the justification is there for having for so many languages?
1) A formatting style that communicates information to human readers,
but nothing to the
interpreter or compiler.
2) A grammar that is parsed by an interpreter or a compiler.
3) denotational/axiomatic/operational semantics of the programming language
4) domain mathematics
It seems to me that any divergence between these is bad.
Marcus
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