A modest proposal

[Wm. King]

A compromise is in order.
I think centered would be cool.

Will Ware wrote:

> Paul M (paul.magwene at yale.edu) wrote:
> : Dear Pythoneers...
>
> A great evil has been perpetuated in the design of the Python
> language. It grieves me to be the one to bring this to the world's
> attention but it must not continue to go unacknowledged. Persons of
> right indentation have once again been marginalized and excluded
> because _every_editor_ever_written_ indents from the LEFT SIDE OF THE
> PAGE. The brutal, systematic, uniform, codified, societally
> legitimized vicious assault on right indentation has gone unnoticed,
> despite my many pleas to Greenpeace and Amnesty International. I am
> forced to bring this issue to the very feet of the Python community
> itself, and beg, nay, demand, that the humanity of right-indenters be
> recognized and respected. Let the bloodshed end here.
>
> Right-indenters are not a vindictive lot. We do not insist that the
> last fifty years of oppression be compensated overnight. We do not
> require that CPython's left indentation be removed and replaced with
> right indentation. We are a peaceful people, eager for understanding
> and amicable coexistence. In the near term, we can get by with the
> following script, which translates left indentation to right
> indentation.
>
>                             # to-right.py
>                    import sys, string, re
>
>               before = re.compile('^\ +')
>
>                                maxlen = 0
>                               lines = [ ]
>           for L in sys.stdin.readlines():
>                            L = L[:-1]
>                   if len(L) > maxlen:
>                   maxlen = len(L)
>                       lines.append(L)
>
>                           for L in lines:
>                  s = before.search(L)
>                         if s != None:
>                  n = s.regs[0][1]
>                         L = L[n:]
>                                 else:
>                             n = 0
> print (maxlen - n - len(L)) * ' ' + L
>
> As a temporary retrofit, I also offer the left-indented version:
>
> # to-right.py
> import sys, string, re
>
> before = re.compile('^\ +')
>
> maxlen = 0
> lines = [ ]
> for L in sys.stdin.readlines():
>     L = L[:-1]
>     if len(L) > maxlen:
>         maxlen = len(L)
>     lines.append(L)
>
> for L in lines:
>     s = before.search(L)
>     if s != None:
>         n = s.regs[0][1]
>         L = L[n:]
>     else:
>         n = 0
>     print (maxlen - n - len(L)) * ' ' + L
>
> Right-indenters are a forebearing bunch, and do not instantly
> expect a command-line option allowing for right indentation.
> We can be gracious enough to wait to see it in Python 2.0.
> --
>    People say that everyone has a few skeletons in their closet. Not me.
>    Well, not yet anyway. I mean, the bodies are still decomposing.
> Will Ware               email: wware[at]world[dot]std[dot]com