A modest proposal

Robin Becker robin at jessikat.demon.co.uk
Thu Jan 20 15:00:27 EST 2000


In article <FonA21.B26 at world.std.com>, Will Ware <wware at world.std.com>
writes

I'm certainly not going to be the one to raise the issue of
boustrophedon (back and forth) indenting.

>Paul M (paul.magwene at yale.edu) wrote:
>: Dear Pythoneers...
>
>A great evil has been perpetuated in the design of the Python
>language. It grieves me to be the one to bring this to the world's
>attention but it must not continue to go unacknowledged. Persons of
>right indentation have once again been marginalized and excluded
>because _every_editor_ever_written_ indents from the LEFT SIDE OF THE
>PAGE. The brutal, systematic, uniform, codified, societally
>legitimized vicious assault on right indentation has gone unnoticed,
>despite my many pleas to Greenpeace and Amnesty International. I am
>forced to bring this issue to the very feet of the Python community
>itself, and beg, nay, demand, that the humanity of right-indenters be
>recognized and respected. Let the bloodshed end here.
>
>Right-indenters are not a vindictive lot. We do not insist that the
...
-- 
Robin Becker



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