Line continuation issue\

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Fri Nov 4 11:56:19 EDT 2011


On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 2:53 AM, Steven Lehar <slehar at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >
> How's it anti-Pythonic for invisible whitespace differences to be significant?
> A central idea of Python was to replace {curly;braces{and;parentheses;}}, which are easily overlooked by the programmer, and use WHITESPACE instead, something that is clearly visible to the programmer, as the defining syntax. Make what is visible to humans significant to the interpreter.
>

I refer more to the problems that perpetually plagued Python
programmers regarding tabs vs spaces (which I think was finally closed
off only in Python 3).

ChrisA



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