Significant whitespace

Chris Rebert clp2 at rebertia.com
Fri Jan 1 17:19:28 EST 2010


On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Dan Stromberg <drsalists at gmail.com> wrote:
> I put together a page about significant whitespace (and the lack thereof).
>
> You're invited to check it out:
>
> http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/~dstromberg/significant-whitespace.html

For those of us who weren't around during the heyday of FORTRAN, can
anyone describe this apparently much-reviled significant whitespace
feature that continues to make some programmers unjustly fearful about
Python's use of indentation?

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,
Chris
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