On Sat, 14 Dec 2013 05:07:29 -0800 (PST)
"Edward K. Ream" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Last night I realized the Python is, in some sense, the best language for
> @auto, because indentation matters in Python.
""" No
it
doesn't """
# :-)
Cheers -Terry
> This meshes perfectly with
> outline organization.
>
> In contrast, languages such as C, javascript and html ignore indentation.
> @auto can still parse the sources into nodes, but @auto can't assume any
> default indentation scheme. Instead, to preserve the original indentation
> (or lack thereof), @auto will have to remember, for each node, the
> indentation that was removed to create that node. A uA is the obvious
> place for such data.
>
> In concept, his isn't a big deal, but in practice it will complicate the
> already way-too-complex code that checks the import to verify that
> rewriting the imported file will yield the same file. The comparison isn't
> necessarily strict. It depends on the language. I'll probably have to
> generalize the checking code, in an attempt to make it simpler.
>
> Edward
>
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