do people really complain about significant whitespace?

[Gerhard Fiedler]

On 2006-08-08 12:49:35, Aahz wrote:

>>Where are they-who-hate-us-for-our-whitespace?  Are "they" really that
>>stupid/petty?  Are "they" really out there at all?  "They" almost sound
>>like a mythical caste of tasteless heathens that "we" have invented.
>>It just sounds like so much trivial nitpickery that it's hard to
>>believe it's as common as we've come to believe.
> 
> When I put on my Python evangelist hat, I do get complaints about that
> regularly.

Being new to Python, and the indenting thing being the one feature that
convinced me to take a serious look at Python, there's almost only one
conclusion for me: they must not like self-documenting code... :)

Gerhard