On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 02:21:42PM -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote: > On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Cedric Sodhi <[1]man...@gmx.net> wrote: > > IF YOU THINK YOU MUST REPLY SOMETHING WITTY, ITERATE THAT THIS HAD BEEN > DISCUSSED BEFORE, REPLY THAT "IT'S SIMPLY NOT GO'NNA HAPPEN", THAT "WHO > DOESN'T LIKE IT IS FREE TO CHOOSE ANOTHER LANGUAGE" OR SOMETHING > SIMILAR, JUST DON'T. > > Every single response in this thread so far has ignored this request. The > correct response honoring this should have been deafening silence. > > For me, if I had to design a new language today, I would probably use > braces, not because they're better than whitespace, but because pretty > much every other lanugage uses them, and there are more interesting > concepts to distinguish a new language. That said, I don't regret that > Python uses indentation, and the rest I have to say about the topic would > violate the above request. >
I think this deserves a reply. Thank you for contributing your opinion and respecting my request and therefore honoring the rules of a civilized debate. -- Cedric _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
