On Wednesday, September 27, 2000 10:21 AM, John Porter [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
wrote:
> Philip Newton wrote:
> > On 26 Sep 2000, Johan Vromans wrote:
> > >
> > > By the same reasoning, you can reduce the use of curlies by using
> > > indentation to define block structure.
> >
> > What an idea! I wonder why no language has tried this before.
>
> It's a question of what the language allows vs. what it requires.
> Perl is nice because it allows you to write in (nearly) any style you
> want -- lots of parens, no whitespace... Requiring the use of parens
> is about as un-perl-like as requiring indentation to denote blocks.
>
Although I have no interest in saying anything supportive of this idea, I think
it would be dreadfully funny if Python suddenly lost its primary point of
advocacy against the Perl language just because we allowed (not required)
blocks by indentation. Maybe then they'd stop invading perl5-advocacy. ;-))
But no thanks: pass. (Is that sys.pass() or language.pass()?)
