Indentation/whitespace

Dave Benjamin ramen at lackingtalent.com
Fri Dec 23 13:51:23 EST 2005


Alex Martelli wrote:
> The main reason I suggest a general-purpose mechanism for the hooking-up
> of the preprocessor is that such a mechanism might stand a chance to be
> accepted (via the usual PEP procedure), as long as other interesting use
> cases can be found; I suspect that if the only use case was "turn braces
> into indents/dedents", the PEP would stand no chance.

+1 on the preprocessor idea, especially if it would allow us to hook in 
at the AST level as well. (No comment on the curlies. ;)

Dave



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