begin quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] as of Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 10:05:04PM -0700: > > > This is yet another reason I can't get the spark of python. > > See my post above to the this issue. The whitespace thing > with Python is like alligators in New York sewers. Anyone > who actually *sees for themselves* the truth knows it is > a non-issue.
"All people are just like me and any disagreement must be because they aren't trying hard enough to see things my way." In other words... drink the kool-aid, you'll like it. That's just crap. I'm thinking that the whole Python and indentation-as-space is just the brace-style religious war brought in as a "feature" of the language, so that advocates can *force* programmers to use their preferred style. Essentially, Python is just the Whitesmiths style sans the braces. (I cannot see how anyone can possibly read code written with that brace style, despite some of my closests friends preferring it to all others.) (Likewise, TCL implicitly forces the programmer to use 1TB, which explains the rabid and unthinking rejection of the language by a sizable (and mostly incoherent) community. I think that they reject the language not for its flaws, but because it forces them to use a brace style they do not find readable.) Put braces or some block-ending keyword in Python, and you can keep the enforced indentation as well. I bet that the folks who object to the whitespace-as-syntax would stop finding the language quite so objectionable. People are /different/. We have to allow for that. -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
