Python scoping

[William Park]

On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 03:06:57PM -0400, Steven D. Majewski wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Joshua Muskovitz wrote:
> > 
> > Driving without my headlights at night tends to diminish my overall speed
> > and distance I prefer to travel, but it doesn't make my life easier or
> > safer, does it?
> 
>  If programming languages used enforced redundancy so that brace-block
> structure and indentation block structure must agree, then programming
> would be safer. 
>  A situation where the human eye uses indentation and the compiler
> uses braces is unsafe. 
>  If you aren't going to enforce redundancy, then you have a choice: 
> make humans adapt to the compiler, or make the compilers adapt to
> human perception. 
>  I think python made the better & safer choice. 

Good programmers always use indentation, with or without braces.  But, I
personally wouldn't mind "end" statements (ie. endif, endfor, endwhile,
etc.) for situations where blocks are longer than one screen.

---William Park, Open Geometry Consulting