On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 21:56:18 +0900, tony summerfelt
<snowzone5 / hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 19:51:04 +0900, you wrote:
> 
> >i happen to intensely hate python also for what its worth :)
> >reason: 3 wasted hours due to an indentation "bug"
> 
> yeah, that can be a killer if you don't use a fixed width font.
> 
> i found the only way to avoid that was to write python code with a dos
> or some console  editor (like the console version of vim, boxer, etc).
> 
> if i had any complaint about ruby it would be  begin/end blocks. i
> thought we ( as programmers) were done with that when pascal fell by
> the wayside. i much prefer {curly brackets} to designate blocks of

Heh, you don't like indentation _and_ you don't like begin/end blocks?
The reason for having begin/end blocks is simple: the
blocks-by-indentation in Python is _good_ -- code looks really
readable; however, the problem with that was in distinguishing end of
code blocks when you have several blocks. That's solved using
begin/end blocks -- the code is as readable and at the same time
there's no end ambiguity.

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