On 2010-11-02, Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> wrote: > I've lost more time to reading people's bitching about indentation than I > have dealing with indentation problems.
Doesn't totally surprise me. :) > But then, I don't insist on using tools which are broken by design. Neither do I. > If your email server converts plain text to HTML, it is broken. Yup. I have an open ticket with the IT department. :) > If your > editor changes spaces to tabs, or visa versa, without being told to do so > (either by an explicit command or an obvious setting), then your editor > is broken. Yes. But that's the thing -- I *want* that behavior for every other tool, file format, or other thing I work with. > If you are stuck with broken mail servers and broken editors and broken > tools because of political reasons, then you have my sympathy. But stop > insisting that everybody has to carry the overhead of your work-arounds > for your broken tools. I have made no such insistance. I have not said Python should change. I have not said other people should want what I want. I'm not the one telling other people that editors they've used happily for twenty years without any problems are clearly wrong. I have merely observed that Python is, in this respect, gratuitously brittle. It doesn't observe the robustness principle; it is conservative in what it accepts, and in particular, is vulnerable to a category of problem which is fairly common, well-known, and likely to remain common for the next few decades. There are reasons for it to be this way, and I don't object to the existence of people who prefer that side of the tradeoff. I do dislike it when people smugly tell me off for having different preferences. -s -- Copyright 2010, all wrongs reversed. Peter Seebach / usenet-nos...@seebs.net http://www.seebs.net/log/ <-- lawsuits, religion, and funny pictures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_(Scientology) <-- get educated! I am not speaking for my employer, although they do rent some of my opinions. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
