On 8/12/2011 6:14 PM, Seebs wrote:
I am responding to your whole line of posts.
I have been indenting code neatly for at least 32 years whenever the
language I used allowed it. Just over 14 years ago, when Python was an
obscure little known or used languge, I adopted it *because* it dropped
all the redundant bracket noise and looked to me like 'executable
pseudocode', as I explained (with an unfortunate misspelling) in
https://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/cc25701a283a3f68
Indentation is part of that. Python-with-brackets would, to me, be
something different -- sure, derived from Python, but not the same.
I do not need for you to adopt and use Python to validate my choice. If
you like it fine, welcome. If not, have fun with something else. I said
that over a decade when this same discussion took place, and I say it
now. Different brains are different. I do not care which of us is in the
majority in which population.
As I and others also pointed out over a decade ago, anyone is free to
add insignificant comment braces (but keep that private, please) or,
more sensibly, commented dedents to help the reader keep track of indent
level.
for...
for ...
if ...
for ...
if ...
[50 more lines of code]
#end outer if
[more code]
--
Terry Jan Reedy
--
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
