do people really complain about significant whitespace?

[Carl Banks]

Stephen Kellett wrote:
> In message <1155124820.123151.140580 at p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com>,
> "brianmce at gmail.com" <brianmce at gmail.com> writes
> >of the driving principles behind Python is that, because code will be
> >read more often than written, readability is more important.
>
> In which case, for long functions with multiple levels of indentation
> Python fails compared to languages that use braces or END or end; etc.

I don't really understand how a closing brace helps here.  Care to
explain why it helps you?

(Deeply nested long functions are evil anyways.  If you have such a
function then you have bigger problems than minor defects in
readability. :)


Carl Banks