Introducing Cobra

John H. Robinson, IV jhriv at ucsd.edu
Wed Jan 2 14:00:09 PST 2008


Christopher Smith wrote:
> James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
> >
> >I religiously avoid embedding TAB is any text.
> >
> I of course *know* you are totally wrong about TAB, but I'd settle for a 
> language that just chose a side and forced everyone to stick with one 
> way. Python's approach let's them mix and it's just a recipe for disaster.

I agree Python's approach is wrong. Whitespace should not be
syntactically significant, outside of separating tokens.

I understand the only two valid arguments:
1) If you remove the braces from the different bracing style, you are
   left with Python-mandated indenting.
2) There is no question which IF block the ELSE is associated with.

-john



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