Grouping code by indentation - feature or ******?

Diez B. Roggisch deetsNOSPAM at web.de
Fri Mar 25 10:33:24 EST 2005


> Normally one is the project leader. He decides.

Whishful thinking.

Another problem I have with code that is _not_ layouted the way I'm used to
it is that the perception of what very code does gets more difficult to me.
You seem to have the same troubles, I take that from your desire to reflect
algorithmic structure different from syntactic. And I guess most people
havo, otherwise the whose layout-thing wouldn't stir up so bad feelings all
the time.

And as not all code I read is code I'm supposed to write (might it be OSS
that I dig into for debugging, or other 3rd party sources I can't control,
e.g. different departments with different project leaders) I found that
python's way of imposing a rather strict layout on _all_ coders out there
means I've less trouble digging into other peoples code. Which is useful -
and it seems that I'm not the only one with this feeling.

-- 
Regards,

Diez B. Roggisch



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