On 29/01/16 17:41, STF wrote: > Personally, I don't find this as a "good thing". It rather recalls the > horrible dreams I have had when I was using Fortran! In Fortran, we have > to deal with position of first characters to make things work. IMO, making > a visual format an essential thing in programming is a very bad idea, if > it's not superficial.
I've never done Fortran but I did do COBOL which similarly is fussy about spacing. But trust me, Python is much more flexible and friendly in its use of whitespace. It essentially just asks you to do what you should be doing anyways. And the way it works avoids most of the dangling else errors you get in languages like C/Java etc (And I had >10 years experience with those before discovering python.) When I first heard that python was white-space sensitive I thought, oh no! But now I see it as a huge strength of the language. Once you get used to it you will find it helps far more than it hinders - just avoid tabs and/or map your tab key to spaces. -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ http://www.amazon.com/author/alan_gauld Follow my photo-blog on Flickr at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangauldphotos _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
