Whitespace as syntax (was Re: Python Rocks!)

[Fredrik Lundh]

Roy Smith <roy at popmail.med.nyu.edu> wrote:
> I fear disaster every time I have to move a block of code.  As the logic
> of my program develops, I'll either have to move a block of code into an
> if, or move it out of one, or I'll take a block of code and turn it into
> a function/method of its own, or maybe even extract something into a
> subclass.  This means cutting and pasting (well, killing and yanking,
> since I use emacs), and changing the indent level up or down.  Emacs
> tries to be smart about indenting and sometimes does something wrong,
> changing the meaning of the code.

having written a few 100k lines of Python code in
emacs, I don't understand what you're talking about.

maybe C-c < and C-c > doesn't work on your machine?

if that's the case, don't you think it's easier to fix
your emacs installation than to redesign Python?

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