allow line break at operators

Seebs usenet-nospam at seebs.net
Fri Aug 12 20:44:26 EDT 2011


On 2011-08-13, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> I have been indenting code neatly for at least 32 years whenever the 
> language I used allowed it. Just over 14 years ago, when Python was an 
> obscure little known or used languge, I adopted it *because* it dropped 
> all the redundant bracket noise and looked to me like 'executable 
> pseudocode', as I explained (with an unfortunate misspelling) in
> https://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/cc25701a283a3f68
> Indentation is part of that. Python-with-brackets would, to me, be 
> something different -- sure, derived from Python, but not the same.

Fair enough.

> I do not need for you to adopt and use Python to validate my choice. If 
> you like it fine, welcome. If not, have fun with something else.

If this were among my options, it's probably what I'd do.  It is what I do
for things where I get a choice of languages.

FWIW, yes, I spec machines with ECC memory whenever I can.  I am a big
fan of "redundant" data that can detect likely errors.

-s
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