Striving for PEP-8 compliance

[Grant Edwards]

On 2010-04-10, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo at geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:
> In message <hpokef$gvg$1 at reader1.panix.com>, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> On 2010-04-10, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo at geek-central.gen.new_zealand>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> In message <hpoh5j$35j$1 at reader1.panix.com>, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>>
>>>> Anybody who invents another brace-delimited language should be beaten.
>>>> You always end up with a big problem trying to make sure the braces
>>>> are consistent with the program logic.
>> 
>>> Would you prefer ???begin??? and ???end??? word symbols, then?
>> 
>> Nope, I categorize those as nothing more than verbose "braces".
>
> But since those symbols already, by definition, directly correspond to 
> program logic, where exactly does the ?big problem? arise trying to make 
> sure they are ?consistent with the program logic?? 

The same goes for indentation.  In python it's not possible to write a
program to correctly indent code that isn't alaready correctly indented.

In a brace delimited language it's not possible to write a program to
correctly place braces in an "incorrectly braced" program.

In either: if it is already correct, it's trivial to transform it into
another correct program with a different "style".

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