begin quoting James G. Sack (jim) as of Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 02:35:24PM -0800: [snip] > I have gotten pretty comfortable with python whitespace, and I think any > programmer can live with it even when s/he doesn't like it.
How many bugs are you willing to have 'em introduce into your codebase? > The cut-n-paste problem is real, but I have always found a way. It is > annoying, though. There's always a way. Computers should make life LESS annoying, not more. > The only other thing I can gripe about is that the lack of a visible > end-block delimiter another annoyance in editing and debugging. I > suspect both of these could be fixed by fancier presentation tricks > (highlighting, color, etc). A custom editor should be able to present you with such things. One of the fancy editors we used when I was using C++ would do that for C++ -- significant closing braces were annotated with what they closed. It was all editor magic, but it was useful as well. I'm suprised that this isn't a feature of some IDE for python yet. -- I'm not really suprised that vim lacks this But I don't see why emacs also gave it a miss Stewart Stremler -- KPLUG-LPSG@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
