<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Cedric Sodhi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:manday@gmx.net">manday@gmx.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
IF YOU THINK YOU MUST REPLY SOMETHING WITTY, ITERATE THAT THIS HAD BEEN<br>
DISCUSSED BEFORE, REPLY THAT "IT'S SIMPLY NOT GO'NNA HAPPEN", THAT "WHO<br>
DOESN'T LIKE IT IS FREE TO CHOOSE ANOTHER LANGUAGE" OR SOMETHING<br>
SIMILAR, JUST DON'T.<br></blockquote></div><br>Every single response in this thread so far has ignored this request. The correct response honoring this should have been deafening silence.<br><br>For me, if I had to design a new language today, I would probably use braces, not because they're better than whitespace, but because pretty much every other lanugage uses them, and there are more interesting concepts to distinguish a new language. That said, I don't regret that Python uses indentation, and the rest I have to say about the topic would violate the above request.<br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>--Guido van Rossum (<a href="http://python.org/~guido">python.org/~guido</a>)<br>