Python and Ruby

[John Bokma]

Steven D'Aprano <steve at REMOVE-THIS-cybersource.com.au> writes:

> On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:47:08 -0600, John Bokma wrote:
>
>> An editor can correct the indenting of the braces example but can't with
>> this one.
>> 
>>   if x:
>>       if y:
>>          foo()
>>   else:
>>       bar()
>> 
>> While braces might be considered redundant they are not when for one
>> reason or another formatting is lost or done incorrectly.
>
> I've heard this argument before, and I don't buy it. Why should we expect 
> the editor to correct malformed code?

I do expect my editor to assist me in coding. In Emacs I have to do some
effort to enter the broken C code in the earlier post, and when I
reformat the code, it will be lined out correctly. I can't do that with
the above example, because it's correctly formatted.

You don't have to buy my argument, I am not selling it.

While in the past I wrote that an editor can't make you that more
productive I want to take that back, on the record. Since I've switched
to Emacs the editor has saved me several times from minor issues. Either
because it refused to indent correctly thanks to a missing closing }, ), ]
or other error. With the correct mode in Emacs one gets, in my
experience, immediate feedback when making mistakes one otherwise find
during the run/compiling phase.

Note that I am also not selling Emacs. It's free after all.

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John Bokma                                                               j3b

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