begin quoting Christian Seberino as of Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 07:26:10PM -0800: > > On Sun, February 4, 2007 6:34 pm, Stewart Stremler wrote: [snip] > > I agree that code should be written for > > humans to read, but that's a responsibility that is given to the > > programmer, not the language. > > What do they call those apps that indent your code for you? > Beatifiers? Prettifiers?
Yup. > If you used those constantly with your favorite > non-Python brace/end tag based language, it would appear you'd have it > all. Um, no, I'd lose the benefits of deliberately breaking indentation conventions to hilight debug/trial code. I suspect this is one of the reasons that IDEs annoy me so. They try to be "helpful" at all the wrong times. -- Knowing when and how to temporarily break a rule is very useful. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
