Why whitespace denotation of blocks doesn't work.

[Stephen Hansen]

    I'm currently experimenting with PythonWin's Show-Tabs thing. I need to
get used to it, though...because as is it looks very distracting. :)

--S

Emile van Sebille <emile at fenx.com> wrote in message
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> ----- Original Message -----
> 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.
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> >     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>
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> 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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