On 11/07/20 10:35 am, Federico Salerno wrote:
I feel all those who aren't directly arguing against it are working off
the assumption that it is needed for match and case to have different
levels of indentation, but is this really true? Is there anything (bar
tradition or other subjective arguments) that speaks in favour of this,
I can't think of one at the moment, but I don't think you
should dismiss tradition so easily. One of the arguments used
to justify significant indentation in Python is that "you're
going to indent it for readability anyway, so the compiler
might as well take notice of it".
For the most part, Python indentation follows what people
would naturally do even if they didn't have to. So I think it's
worth looking at what people typically do in other languages
that don't have mandatory indentation.
Taking C, for example, switch statements are almost always
written like this:
switch (x) {
case 1:
...
case 2:
...
default:
...
}
I've rarely if ever seen one written like this:
switch (x) {
case 1:
...
case 2:
...
default:
...
}
or like this:
switch (x) {
case 1:
...
case 2:
...
default:
...
}
This suggests to me that most people think of the cases as being
subordinate to the switch, and the default being on the same level
as the other cases.
--
Greg
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