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• whitespace (Score:2)

  by inkdroid (3294) on 2004.05.13 14:25 (#30799) Homepage Journal

  Thankfully he didn't say anything about whitespace. That complaint gets old quick :-)

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  • Re:whitespace (Score:1)

    by zatoichi (4897)

    We already know that forcing whitespace is a bad thing, so it didn't need to be said. ;-)
    • Re:whitespace (Score:2)

      by inkdroid (3294)

      Perhaps I've hung out here too long...
    • Re:whitespace (Score:2)

      by gnat (29)

      I've been playing with Python, and I'm much more sanguine about the whitespace thing now that I've used it. Any Python smackdown requires more than "whitespace bad, curlies good". But it still deserves a smackdown. All that nonsense about being intuitive and executable pseudocode is fiction.

      --Nat
      • Re:whitespace (Score:1)

        by zatoichi (4897)

        I have used Python as well. The longer I had to deal with the indentation the more annoying it got to me.
      • Re:whitespace (Score:1)

        by chromatic (983)

        Don't care much for all those underscores around methods either, huh?
  • I'm a little saddened by that, actually (Score:1)

    by btilly (5037)

    I would have loved to see him include COBOL in that list, and see whether any Python fans figured it out.
    
    OTOH given how much flack Larry has taken over significant whitespace rules in Perl 6, he may feel that it is best to just avoid that topic.
  • Re:whitespace (Score:2)

    by rafael (2125)

    Actually he did [perl.org]. Well, not really whitespace, but indentation nonetheless.