Why whitespace denotation of blocks doesn't work.

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <39520785.690843718 at nntp.interaccess.com>,
Thaddeus L. Olczyk <olczyk at interaccess.com> wrote:
>
>The point is not that I can copy and paste with out reindenting.
>The point is that sometimes I have to. let me show a generic example
>
>if a:
>   for b in B:
>      if c(b):
>          block statement.
>
>Assume that you are editing another part and you realise that you
>are about to essentially retype the block statement. So you do
>
>def fun():
>  block statement
>
>if a:
>   for b in B:
>      if c(b):
>           fun()
>you have to reindent the block statement. This is not copy and paste
>reuse. It is cut and paste refactoring, and you have to reindent.

Sure.  But if you're Doing It Right, you'd have to do that for any other
language; Python simply *forces* you to do it.  While it's sometimes a
PITA for debug code, I think the consistent readability is worth it.
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