On 2010-11-04, Grant Edwards <inva...@invalid.invalid> wrote: > On 2010-11-04, Neil Cerutti <ne...@norwich.edu> wrote: >> On 2010-11-04, D'Arcy J.M. Cain <da...@druid.net> wrote: >>>> * Not being able to write an auto-indenter, ever, because it >>>> is by design theoretically impossible: Annoying. >>> >>> Right. And in C you can never write an auto-bracer for >>> exactly the same reason. >> >> It's not right, actually. Auto-indent is fairly easy in >> Python. Auto-dedent is the impossible part. > > I think in common usage the term "auto-intender" refers to a > program that can automatically control source indentation > (which inclulde both "indenting" and "dindenting" source > lines).
Thanks for the correction. Autoindent doesn't mean that to me (I'm a vi user), but I should have figured out what he meant from the context. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
