On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 01:46, Isaac To wrote: > >>>>> "Tom" == Tom <tb.31112.nospam@comcast.net> writes: > > Tom> Significant whitespace? Shudder, that brings back crusty old > Tom> memories of Fortran. I have great fondness for fortran because of > Tom> the wonderful mathematical algorithms in LinPack, but I have no > Tom> fondness for significant whitespace. > > Please actually try to code something in Python before commenting on its use > of spaces. It is unlike the times of Fortran: in Fortran spaces are used to > make programs easy to read by machines; in Python spaces are used to make > programs easy to read by human. > You've never had to combine 'patch' and Python programs have you? After receiving a few created by people with different indent bigotries you quickly realise why significant whitespace is a fundamentally bad idea. I've had to go and ask someone where his new block was supposed to be indent-wise before because he used X-space tabs and only provided a single tab at the start. (And no, it wasn't in the obvious place.) (And this is ignoring the person who sent a patch made with -l that changed the indent level of a number of blocks.) Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist?
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