Re: Structure using whitespace vs logical whitespace

2008-12-16 Thread Eric Brunel
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:00:32 +0100, Gabriel Genellina wrote: En Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:29:31 -0200, cmdrrickhun...@yaho.com escribió: PS. In my opinion the solution would be to have the option of entering a "whitespace insensitive" mode which uses C style {} and ;. The token to enter it co

Re: Structure using whitespace vs logical whitespace

2008-12-16 Thread Lie Ryan
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:29:31 -0800, cmdrrickhun...@yaho.com wrote: > I've been trying to search through the years of Python talk to find an > answer to this, but my Googlefu is weak. > > In most languages, I'll do something like this > > xmlWriter.BeginElement("parent"); > xmlWriter.BeginEle

Re: Structure using whitespace vs logical whitespace

2008-12-16 Thread Ken Seehart
cmdrrickhun...@yaho.com wrote: I've been trying to search through the years of Python talk to find an answer to this, but my Googlefu is weak. In most languages, I'll do something like this xmlWriter.BeginElement("parent"); xmlWriter.BeginElement("child"); --xml.Writer.Characters("s

Re: Structure using whitespace vs logical whitespace

2008-12-16 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:29:31 -0200, cmdrrickhun...@yaho.com escribió: PS. In my opinion the solution would be to have the option of entering a "whitespace insensitive" mode which uses C style {} and ;. The token to enter it could be as complicated as you want (in fact, it may make sense to m

Re: Structure using whitespace vs logical whitespace

2008-12-15 Thread Дамјан Георгиевски
> In most languages, I'll do something like this > > xmlWriter.BeginElement("parent"); > xmlWriter.BeginElement("child"); > --xml.Writer.Characters("subtext"); > xmlWriter.EndElement(); > xmlWriter.EndElement(); > > Where the dashes are indentation (since some newsgroup handlers d

Re: Structure using whitespace vs logical whitespace

2008-12-15 Thread Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:27:12 -0800, cmdrrickhun...@yaho.com wrote: > On Dec 15, 11:10 am, Terry Reedy wrote: >> > In general, I'm using indentation to show logical flow through code. >> >> That, of course, is what Python does. >> > Python does NOT use indentation to show logical flow. It uses it

Re: Structure using whitespace vs logical whitespace

2008-12-15 Thread cmdrrickhun...@yaho.com
On Dec 15, 11:10 am, Terry Reedy wrote: > > In general, I'm using indentation to show logical flow through code. > > That, of course, is what Python does. > Python does NOT use indentation to show logical flow. It uses it to show syntactical flow. The XML writer is the perfect example of a case

Re: Structure using whitespace vs logical whitespace

2008-12-15 Thread Terry Reedy
cmdrrickhun...@yaho.com wrote: I've been trying to search through the years of Python talk to find an answer to this, but my Googlefu is weak. In most languages, I'll do something like this xmlWriter.BeginElement("parent"); xmlWriter.BeginElement("child"); --xml.Writer.Characters("s

Re: Structure using whitespace vs logical whitespace

2008-12-15 Thread Marek_SP
On 15 Gru, 18:14, MRAB wrote: > cmdrrickhun...@yaho.com wrote: > > I've been trying to search through the years of Python talk to find an > > answer to this, but my Googlefu is weak. > > > In most languages, I'll do something like this > > > xmlWriter.BeginElement("parent"); > > xmlWriter.Begi

Re: Structure using whitespace vs logical whitespace

2008-12-15 Thread MRAB
cmdrrickhun...@yaho.com wrote: I've been trying to search through the years of Python talk to find an answer to this, but my Googlefu is weak. In most languages, I'll do something like this xmlWriter.BeginElement("parent"); xmlWriter.BeginElement("child"); --xml.Writer.Characters("s