Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme

[Mark Wilson]

On Wednesday, October 8, 2003, at 08:15 PM, Karl A. Krueger wrote:

> [snip]

> Incidentally, I regard objections to "the whitespace thing" in Python
> and objections to "the parenthesis thing" in Lisp as more or less the
> same.  People who raise these objections are usually just saying "Ick!
> This looks so unfamiliar to me!" in the language of rationalizations.
> [snip]

I think Joe Marshall's analysis of the shortcomings of using 
indentation as a syntactical element of a programming language (several 
posts earlier in this thread) demonstrates that your view is incorrect.

Regards,

Mark Wilson