waku wrote: > On Feb 9, 10:41 pm, Jonathan Gardner <jgard...@jonathangardner.net> > wrote: >> On Feb 9, 1:51 am, waku <w...@idi.ntnu.no> wrote: >> >>> 'stupid', 'wrong', 'deficient', 'terrible', ... you're using strong >>> words instead of concrete arguments, it might intimidate your >>> opponents, but is hardly helpful in a fair discussion. >> In today's day and age, I don't know how a text editor which cannot do >> simple indentation can be considered anything but "stupid", "wrong", >> "deficient", and "terrible". There is simply no excuse for this kind >> of behavior on the part of the text editor. > > i thought we were not discussing text editors, why should you insist > so much on diverting attention from the issue of a programmer being > *forced* to keep perfect indentation to the issue of an editor doing > autoindent or the like. > It's as sensible to complain about people being "*forced* to keep perfect indentation" as it is to complain about people being *forced* to use braces to delimit code blocks.
This is called "syntax", and it's a part of the language, so get over it - this aspect of Python has been present in the language since its inception, and it isn't going to change. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 PyCon is coming! Atlanta, Feb 2010 http://us.pycon.org/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ UPCOMING EVENTS: http://holdenweb.eventbrite.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
