Why whitespace denotation of blocks doesn't work.

[Emile van Sebille]

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From: "Stephen Hansen" <stephen at cerebralmaelstrom.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
To: <python-list at python.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2000 8:51 AM
Subject: Re: Why whitespace denotation of blocks doesn't
work.


>     I discovered Python a bit over a year ago, and have
been using it
> relatively constantly in idle projects. Some are simple,
some are not.
> Currently i'm working on one that's not.
>
>     Initially, the indentation thing struck me as weird.
My main complaint
> about it is not that it's difficult to maintain proper
indentation, but that
> if you're scrolled far down in nested 'if', for instance,
it's sometimes
> hard to see which indentation-level is for which 'if'...
but then i'll just
> split-my-screen and scroll up.
>
<snipped>

Which is why I prefer an editor that shows whitespace
and use tabs.  That makes it easy to follow the column
of tab marks down the screen.

Emile van Sebille
emile at fenx.com
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