indentation

[Mark Jackson]

"Tim Peters" <tim_one at email.msn.com> writes:
> [Will Rose]
> > I always assumed that Python's whitespace rules _came_ from Fortran IV:
> > or at least something overly intimate with 80-col punched cards.
> 
> Python's use of whitespace is the polar opposite of Fortran Classic's:
> whitespace means nothing in the latter, not even as a token separator.

"Consistently separating words by spaces became a general custom about
the tenth century A.D., and lasted until about 1957, when FORTRAN
abandoned the practice." (Sun FORTRAN Reference Manual)

-- 
Mark Jackson - http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~mjackson
	It doesn't matter that I'm a crab!  I'm an Internet visionary!
				- Hawthorne (Jim Toomey)