On 31Oct2017 22:50, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

Koos Zevenhoven wrote:

|defsingle(i): try: ||v =i.next() |||exceptStopIteration:||||raiseException('No values')|||try: ||i.next() ||exceptStopIteration: ||returnv||else: ||raiseException('Too many values')|||printsingle(name forname in('bob','fred')ifname=='bob')||| |

Looks like a clever method of whitespace compression to me. Those narrow vertical bars take up far less room that spaces!

And so convenient! No dependency on some parochial indentation size policy. - Cameron

On 31Oct2017 22:50, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

Koos Zevenhoven wrote:

|defsingle(i): try: ||v =i.next() |||exceptStopIteration:||||raiseException('No values')|||try: ||i.next() ||exceptStopIteration: ||returnv||else: ||raiseException('Too many values')|||printsingle(name forname in('bob','fred')ifname=='bob')||| |

Looks like a clever method of whitespace compression to me. Those narrow vertical bars take up far less room that spaces!

And so convenient! No dependency on some parochial indentation size policy. - Cameron