Larry Wall's comment on python...

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Rod Stephenson wrote:
> Slashdot has a list of questions posed to Larry Wall (perl). When
> asked his thoughts on other scripting languages, he makes the
> following observation about python
> 
> "Python is cool to look at small bits of, but I think the "outline"
> syntax breaks down with larger chunks of code. I'm with Aristotle on
> the structure of discourse--a story should have a beginning, and
> middle, and an end. So should blocks"
> 
> I'm not quite sure what he's trying to get at here - I guess that for
> a long heavily indented chunk of code, you could lose track of the
> overall structure, but I don't write code this way.
> 
> Any comments?

def fun(args):
#BEGIN
     if ceci or cela:
     #BEGIN
         do_this(with_that)
         [snip a lot of code]
     #END
#END


So what the problem with blocks ?

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