Using indentation for blocking

Fred Pacquier fredp at multimania.com.nospam
Fri Sep 10 09:45:25 EDT 1999


fredrik at pythonware.com (Fredrik Lundh) said :

>  "We will perhaps eventually be writing only small
>  modules which are identified by name as they are
>  used to build larger ones, so that devices like
>  indentation, rather than delimiters, might become
>  feasible for expressing local structure in the source
>  language."
>  -- Donald E. Knuth, "Structured Programming with goto
>  Statements", Computing Surveys, Vol 6 No 4, Dec. 1974 

Wow ! Great quote, thanks !

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