[Python-ideas] Transportable indent level markers. /// ; ; ; \\\

[Jeremy Sanders]

Ron Adam wrote:
> 
> ;;; def acc(n):     # indent +0
> /// s = n           # indent +1
> ;;; def add(i):     # indent +0
> /// nonlocal s      # indent +1
> ;;; s += i          # indent +0
> ;;; return s        # indent +0
> \\\ return add      # indent -1
> 

To allow easy use of python in environments which aren't space-sensitive, 
wouldn't another solution be to have some sort of non-space character which 
could act as leading spaces, e.g.

def foo():
;;a = 0
;;for i in range(10):
;;;;a += i
;;return a

Of course this wouldn't work for enviroments which lose or cannot contain 
line breaks, however.

Jeremy