A 'Python like' language

[Stephen Horne]

On 28 Mar 2004 21:49:07 -0500, aahz at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote:

>In article <1f9c60dtvj2alu8lk522l29nerqrv0trv3 at 4ax.com>,
>Stephen Horne  <steve at ninereeds.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>I missed that. There's good precedent - it's the Pascal 'with' block,
>>but better (the leading dot tells you that you're dealing with a
>>'with' item rather than normal scoping rules). But - well - just
>>recently, people keep telling me that indented blocks are purely about
>>control flow. I keep disagreeing, but no-one has bothered agreeing
>>with me so I was feeling rather lonely and miserable in this crusade
>>:-(
>
>Huh?  Where were they telling you that?  (I don't read all of c.l.py by
>a long shot, 'specially when I've just gotten back from PyCon.)  From my
>POV, indented blocks are about program structure and namespaces.  Saying
>that ``class`` refers purely to control flow definitely misses the point.

My replies were...

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I'm sure google can give you the full threads.


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