<p>Ditch the colon too. Also you're a troll. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 10, 2011 9:58 AM, "Cedric Sodhi" <<a href="mailto:manday@gmx.net">manday@gmx.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I reply to your contribution mainly because I see another, valid<br>
argument hidden in what you formulated as an opinion:<br>
<br>
Readability would be reduced by such "noise". To anticipate other people<br>
agreeing with that, let me say, that it would be exactly one more<br>
character, and the same amount of key presses. All that, assuming you<br>
use editor automatisms, which particularly the advocates of WSB tend to<br>
bring forth in defense of WSB and aforementioned problems associated<br>
with it.<br>
<br>
Only one more character and not more key presses? Yes, instead of<br>
opening a block with a colon, you open it with an opening bracket. And<br>
you close it with a closing one.<br>
<br>
Referring to "noise", I take it you are preferring naturally expressed<br>
languages (what Roff's PIC, for example, exemplifies to banality).<br>
<br>
How is a COLON, which, in natural language, PUNCTUATES a context, any<br>
more suited than braces, which naturally ENCLOSE a structure?<br>
<br>
Obviously, it by far is not, even from the standpoint of not<br>
intersparsing readable code with unnatural characters.<br>
<br>
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 09:40:54AM +1100, Matt Joiner wrote:<br>
> If braces were introduced I would switch to Haskell, I can't stand the<br>
> noise. If you want to see a language that allows both whitespace, semi<br>
> colons and braces take a look at it. Nails it.<br>
><br>
> On Dec 10, 2011 9:31 AM, "Cedric Sodhi" <[1]<a href="mailto:manday@gmx.net">manday@gmx.net</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 02:21:42PM -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote:<br>
> > On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Cedric Sodhi<br>
> <[1][2]<a href="mailto:manday@gmx.net">manday@gmx.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> > IF YOU THINK YOU MUST REPLY SOMETHING WITTY, ITERATE THAT THIS<br>
> HAD BEEN<br>
> > DISCUSSED BEFORE, REPLY THAT "IT'S SIMPLY NOT GO'NNA HAPPEN",<br>
> THAT "WHO<br>
> > DOESN'T LIKE IT IS FREE TO CHOOSE ANOTHER LANGUAGE" OR SOMETHING<br>
> > SIMILAR, JUST DON'T.<br>
> ><br>
> > Every single response in this thread so far has ignored this<br>
> request. The<br>
> > 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<br>
> use<br>
> > braces, not because they're better than whitespace, but because<br>
> pretty<br>
> > much every other lanugage uses them, and there are more interesting<br>
> > concepts to distinguish a new language. That said, I don't regret<br>
> that<br>
> > Python uses indentation, and the rest I have to say about the topic<br>
> would<br>
> > violate the above request.<br>
> ><br>
><br>
> I think this deserves a reply. Thank you for contributing your opinion<br>
> and respecting my request and therefore honoring the rules of a<br>
> civilized debate.<br>
><br>
> -- Cedric<br>
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