On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 2:53 AM, Steven Lehar <sle...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> How's it anti-Pythonic for invisible whitespace differences to be significant?
> A central idea of Python was to replace {curly;braces{and;parentheses;}},
> which are easily overlooked by the programmer, and use WHITESPACE instead,
> something that is clearly visible to the programmer, as the defining syntax.
> Make what is visible to humans significant to the interpreter.
>
I refer more to the problems that perpetually plagued Python
programmers regarding tabs vs spaces (which I think was finally closed
off only in Python 3).
ChrisA
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