help explaining rationale for indentation

[Penfold]

The irony of this particular criticism is that most C++ programmers use
indentation anyway ... anyone claiming that
class X
{
double x()
{
if (1)
{
while (1)
{
blah()
}
}
}
}

is easy to read is obviously a perl programmer.  Most programmers would
indent that anyway, and when they do, it will look surprisingly
like python ...

Des.

Aron Insinga <ainsinga at infomation.com> wrote in message
news:4.2.2.20000822154442.00bb2610 at pop.enterprise-services.com...
> *sigh*  A couple of my coworkers think it is hard to read Python code
since
> there's no '}' at the end of a compound statement.  S section of the
Python
> FAQ <http://www.python.org/doc/FAQ.html#6.2> gives a small example of
bogus
> indentation in C/C++ creating confusion.  I recall reading a much longer
> piece of code illustrating this problem, and the article described Python
> as a WYSIWYG programming language, but I can't find it.  I have searched
> the web and python.org web site and browsed through many tutorials and
> language comparisons but can't seem to find it.  Any help locating this
> example would be appreciated.
>
> Thank you.
>
> - Aron Insinga
>
>