Whitespace delimiters suck

[James Logajan]

Paul Magwene wrote:
> 
> Eric S. Johansson <esj at harvee.billerica.ma.us> wrote in message news:86np80
> [snip[
> >
> > > hey, who the heck is reading code over the phone
> > > these days?
> >
> > anyone trying to program using speech recognition.  Why would they
> > do this you might ask?  Probably because they were injured from
> > programming using keyboards.
> >
> > yes, it's not strictly reading code over the phone but there
> > are significant similarities...
> >
> 
> Yes, but isn't it possible to set the speech recognition software so when
> you say "indent" it tabs right, and when you say "dedent" it tabs left?

Or for that matter, it maps the phrase "begin block" and "end block" to the
correct key sequences for the target programming language. In "vi" with
auto-indent, this would work fine.