Python with Braces

Re:Python with Braces by iMark on Sunday February 09, 2014 @06:14PM (#7207883)

I've had 20 years of dealing with C style parentheses and I've learned to parse it visually at a glance. I can't do the same with languages which use significant white space instead.

I imagine I could train myself to do so, but there is a cost involved.

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Re:Python with Braces by nedbat on Sunday February 09, 2014 @06:31PM (#7207974)

I suspect if you were presented with a piece of code where the indentation and the braces disagreed, you would believe the indentation. Yes, it's easy to parse at a glance if it is correct, and the indentation agrees with it. If it doesn't, good luck seeing the error.

This is one of the good things about significant indentation: the human and the computer are reading the same signals.

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