What is the number of the PEP for adding indention to Python?

[Zoo Keeper]

Can't get technical and site documentation... but for what it is
worth, it has to do with the way the human eye (and I believe it is
also a cultural phenomenon to some extent (chinese, vs. hebrew vs.
English/romance languages) and brain expect to visualize whatever it
is you are studying.  I took a class in document design.  Much time
was spent on the fact that the human eye does NOT like to move much,
DOES follow a pattern of 'seek and destroy' (so to speak :) and does
need whitespace.  The eye follows a pattern when scanning a page (or
window) (top to bottom, left to right in our case) and also is
automatically DRAWN to objects, text, whatever, that is different and
not continuous to the surrounding text.  Indentation suggests (whether
consciously or subconsciously) that the lines following the previous,
unindented line, are somehow related but in a special way (not just
continual text, but a sub-text).

	"I bet you are reading this and expect it to be some
	sort of quote from someone else?  No?"

I bet your eyes were drawn to the previous sentences.  Why?
I also believe that this is still the pattern in languages that do NOT
run left to right, top to bottom (pattern = indentation, that is).

Mike

PS - There is a good book called "Looking good in print" that covers
some of this in a very simple/basic way.

On Thu, 03 Jan 2002 22:12:04 -0800, Quentin Crain
<nanotech at europa.com> wrote:

>All:
>
>I have been pestering the Ruby folks with my particular topic of interest, 
>and I thought I would pop over here and try also!
>
>     I am wondering if there is a document explaining/justifying those
>     design decisions behind the Python language that are related to
>     the developer as a human/person?
>
>For example, enforced indention is a design decision which was *not* made 
>with the computer or the language's "power" in mind. It was made because of 
>the philosophy that it would make the code more readable (I assume! 
><wink!>). Great! I happen to like it. But, what was the justification for 
>it? Are there studies that back this up? Research?
>
>To make my post more philosophic, it seems to me a language should be 
>designed knowing that *people* will be using it. Therefore, learnings, 
>studies, and research from topics such as linguistics, psychology, 
>cognitive science, etc ought to be at least considered. Was this done for 
>Python? If so, is there a document which explains why those design 
>decisions that relate to the developer as a human were made, along with 
>citations? If not, why is this always left out, not addressed, ignored?
>
>thanks!! <<q
>
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