indentation

[Emile van Sebille]

I like Python's indentation...

but I also recently got pulled back into a postscript project I did 10
years ago and someone had *cleaned* up the code with indentation!  I
actually found it harder to follow (than my
continue-as-one-line-to-emulate-the-stack((lack-of))style).  It just
felt as if the whitespace got in the way of what was happening.  Things
like, why break there? etc, crept into my thoughts and then I could
start again...

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Emile van Sebille
emile at fenx.com
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Thomas Hamelryck <thamelry at vub.ac.be> wrote in message
news:829da5$s4d$2 at mach.vub.ac.be...
> Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake at acm.org) wrote:
> : Gerrit Holl writes:
> :  > As i said: people who start with Python as a first language like
it.
> :   There are those of us who started with x86 assembly and BASIC who
> : like it too!  (And Pascal, and C, and C++, and... hey, how many
places
> : can one person start in, anyway? ;)
>
> As far as I can tell it's certainly not only the novices who like the
use
> of indentation. Some pretty experienced programmers are very much in
favor
> of indentation as well. I guess it's just not my thing.
>
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