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[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message <mailman.497.1288703990.2218.python-list at python.org>, Emile van 
Sebille wrote:

> On 11/1/2010 4:22 PM Lawrence D'Oliveiro said...
>
>> In message<mailman.465.1288653523.2218.python-list at python.org>, Emile van
>> Sebille wrote:
>>
>>> At least you can look at python code and _know_ that spurious placement
>>> of required line noise don't have the ability to impact what the code
>>> does.
>>
>> But it does. What is spurious whitespace if not noise, after all?
> 
> But it does so by intent.  Other languages lend only an appearance of
> structure through the indentation style of the writer.

No, the indentation is there to make the structure clearer, not to act as a 
substitute for the structure. Try to conflate the two, and you end up with 
problems such as we are discussing.

> It's as good as outdated comments.

Outdated comments are a bug like any other, and should be fixed.