Using indentation for blocking
mictali
dwaf at my-deja.com
Fri Sep 10 07:39:52 EDT 1999
Please understand I am a complete newbie to Python, so be gentle.
I have been reviewing Python as a scripting language that I could embed
inside things like HTML/XML/SGML. The concern I have is that since
Python uses indentation for control block marking, if I read a script
out of a document I may not receive the correct indentation. Some of
the parsers condense whitespace. I'm delving deeply into SGML as I know
there are settings that can tell it not to strip white space.
I was just wondering why Python was designed to use whitespace as the
block seperators instead of hard indicators (such as {} in C).
Just curious.
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