Indentation/whitespace

[Thomas Bartkus]

"Joe" <jkrahn at nc.rr.com> wrote in message
news:1135360496.036672.326570 at g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Is Python going to support s syntax the does not use it's infamous
> whitespace rules? I recall reading that Python might include such a
> feature. Or, maybe just a brace-to-indentation preprocessor would be
> sufficient.
>
> Many people think Python's syntax makes sense. There are strong
> feelings both ways. It must depend on a person's way of thinking,
> because I find it very confusing, even after using with Python for some
> time, and trying to believe the advice that I would learn to like it.
> The most annoying thing is that multiple dedents are very unreadable. I
> still don't understand how anybody can think significant-but-invisible
> dedentation is a good thing.
>
> Note: No need to follow up with long opinions of why indentation is
> good -- they have been posted hundreds of times. It just seems that
> Python developers think the whitespace thing is only an issue for
> newbies. I think that many experienced users don't learn to like it,
> but instead just learn to live with it.

Okay - I'll take your note and not argue about "why indentation is good"

But - why should Python
   "support s syntax the does not use it's infamous whitespace rules"
It's unique to Python. That's what Python *is*.

If one doesn't like it, one needn't waste one's time with it.  No other
other language abides by those rules except Python.

So just choose a different language to work with.
Thomas Bartkus