statements and blocks

[Alexander Williams]

On 28 Jan 2000 21:13:03 GMT, John Kochmar <kochmar at pitfiend.psc.edu>
wrote:

>	print "a"
>	print "b"
>		print "c"
>		print "d"
>		print "e"
>	print "f"

Maybe this begs the question, but why not:

    print "a"
    print "b"
    
    # Operational block -- Outputs Crap Level Two
    print "c"
    print "d"
    print "e"

    print "f"

...  That is, use vertical space and a verbose comment to denote the
block.

Python drives you to make form follow function.  You're not actually
setting that block off for any functional reason, its connotational,
not denotational; as such, you should use connotational methods to
convey the difference, in essence, comments and vertical whitespace.

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