"Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You are aware that it is only one character more to type?
I'm not arguing for print vs. print(), but I do want to comment on the "character count" argument. I'm a pretty good typist, the result of having been forced in junior high school (in the mid 70's) to learn typing the "right way" -- on a typewriter with blank keycaps. It forced you to really learn to touch-type. I don't know if this was some touchy-feely idea that if they girls had to learn to type (after all, they were all going to be secretaries) then it's only fair to make the boys learn it too. Or, if they were just amazingly prescient about computers taking over the world and typing becoming an important high-tech skill. Either way, I learned to touch type. That being said, hitting the space bar is pretty much a freebie. You can do it with either thumb(*), and you don't have to move your fingers from the home row. To get the ( and ), you have to reach way up to the top row with one hand and down hit the shift key with the opposite pinkie. A much costlier operation in terms of maintaining a good typing speed. On the other hand, it's a well known (or at least well believed :-)) fact that code is read many more times than it's written. Making something easier to read is much more important than making it easy to type. (*) Oddly enough, as I type this and pay attention to what my fingers are doing, I find that I almost exclusively use the *left* thumb, which I never noticed before. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
