Another salvo in the indentation war? I hope not.

Martijn Faassen m.faassen at vet.uu.nl
Sun May 28 17:26:24 EDT 2000


Philip 'Yes, that's my address' Newton <nospam.newton at gmx.li> wrote:
[snip]
> Try feeding this to python, then:

> if 1 == 1:
> print "This won't work"

> You'll get a SyntaxError if somebody removes all leading indentation.

If you feed this:

if (1 == 1) {
  printf("This won't work.\n");
}

To C you'll get compiler errors as well if somebody removes all the '}'s. :)

If-malicious-somebody's-start-removing-stuff-all-code-is-lost-ly yours,

Martijn
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