On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > Evangelical vicar in want of a portable second-hand font. Would > dispose, for the same, of a portrait, in frame, of the Bishop-elect of > Vermont. > > I think you could quite easily reconstruct the formatting of that, > based on its internal structure. Even in poetry, English doesn't > depend on its formatting nearly as much as Python does;
(Just to dispose of this old argument:) Both Python and English depend on both syntactical, material delimiters and whitespace. While it may seem that Python depends more on whitespace than English, that is highly contentious, poetry or not. Take some literature, remove all the tabs at paragraph start and CRs at paragraph-end so that it all runs together and you'll find that it impossible to read -- you just won't be able to enter into the universe that the author is attempting to build. -- MarkJ Tacoma, Washington -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
