[Python-Dev] [PATCH] Adding braces to __future__

[Cedric Sodhi]

On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 02:21:42PM -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>    On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Cedric Sodhi <[1]manday at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
>      IF YOU THINK YOU MUST REPLY SOMETHING WITTY, ITERATE THAT THIS HAD BEEN
>      DISCUSSED BEFORE, REPLY THAT "IT'S SIMPLY NOT GO'NNA HAPPEN", THAT "WHO
>      DOESN'T LIKE IT IS FREE TO CHOOSE ANOTHER LANGUAGE" OR SOMETHING
>      SIMILAR, JUST DON'T.
> 
>    Every single response in this thread so far has ignored this request. The
>    correct response honoring this should have been deafening silence.
> 
>    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.
> 

I think this deserves a reply. Thank you for contributing your opinion
and respecting my request and therefore honoring the rules of a
civilized debate.

-- Cedric