bracing for a firestorm

Remco Gerlich scarblac at pino.selwerd.nl
Mon May 21 17:59:02 EDT 2001


Andrew Kuchling <akuchlin at mems-exchange.org> wrote in comp.lang.python:
> rzantow at usa.net (- RZ) writes:
> >    Can anyone tell me what would be involved in creating a version of
> > Python that used {braces} as its indent/dedent delimiters? What
> > modules would have to be changed?
> 
> Probably just hacking the tokenizer so that '{' returns INDENT and '}'
> returns DEDENT.  While probably not completely trivial, I can't see
> this taking more than an evening's work to get an initial hack
> running.

But then, dictionaries also use { }...

-- 
Remco Gerlich



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