OT: This Swift thing

[Terry Reedy]

On 6/4/2014 10:53 AM, Mark H Harris wrote:

>      The topic came up because the C/C++ coders were being encouraged to
> try Python3 as the language of choice for a new project, and someone
> said they would never consider Python for a project primary language
> because of indentation block delimiting. The whole debate, as in most
> flames, was stupid. The primary paradigm on this topic locally is that
> indents are bad because malformed or mangled code cannot be reformatted
> easily (if at all).

Begin solution:':' as the end of a line means 'begin block; indent next 
line'. If one is using tools that mangle, one can add end-of-block 
comments: '# end, # end if, # if (end implied), or even just ##. In any 
case, the stylized comment could mean 'dedent' and code could be 
reconstituted with all indents stripped. There are probably programs on 
PyPI to do that. End of excuse.

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Terry Jan Reedy