On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 11:08:44PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > H. S. Teoh dijo [Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 08:47:27PM -0500]: > > > >*chalks up one more reason to avoid Python like the plague...* > > > > > > Uh, care to rewrite that since Python is now on 2.3 and 1.5.2 is > > > several years old? > > [snip] > > > > That doesn't negate the fact that I find significant whitespace rather > > atrocious. I really rather use a language where I'm free to format the > > code the way I want it, to maximally convey its meaning, rather than to be > > forced to write it a certain way because some genius decided that > > whitespace should be significant. > > I think you should really take a look at the Whitespace programming > language [1], it will make you love Python. Oh, right. "I hate foo, because it does bar" "Hey, there's also baz, which does a hell of a lot more of bar, therefore foo must be great" Giving an example of something which is worse than the original doesn't mean the original suddenly is less of a headache. Fact is, Python uses the concept of significant whitespace, which a lot of us simply don't like. That's a personal opinion, and in most cases probably not a rational thing, so providing arguments won't help. Can we cut this thread here, please? (yeah, I know I started it) -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http://nl.linux.org "Stop breathing down my neck." "My breathing is merely a simulation." "So is my neck, stop it anyway!" -- Voyager's EMH versus the Prometheus' EMH, stardate 51462.
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