Python scoping

[Steven D. Majewski]

On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, William Park wrote:

> 
> Good programmers always use indentation, with or without braces.  But, I
> personally wouldn't mind "end" statements (ie. endif, endfor, endwhile,
> etc.) for situations where blocks are longer than one screen.
> 

I try to keep my blocks and functions short enough to be easily readable,
but yes: there are times when they have to be longer than a page. But 
in those cases, even with a block delimiter, I find I need to use 
additional comments: 'endif' isn't enough because I probably have
multiple if statements, so I need "endif (test-condition)" to match
up with "if (test-condition)". 
 I don't know of any programming languages that are quite that verbose,
and I'm not sure I would like it since the shorter one-page cases 
vastly prevail, so I might as well use comments for those exceptional
cases. ( And it's not any harder to use comments with "offside rule" 
block structure than it is with explicit end tokens. ) 

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