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Lyn A Headley  
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 More options Mar 9 1998, 3:00 am
Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl, comp.lang.python
From: Lyn A Headley <lahea...@boguscs.uchicago.edu>
Date: 1998/03/09
Subject: Re: Tcl vs. Python for Scripting C Statistical Library
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>>>>> "Robin" == Robin Becker <ro...@jessikat.demon.co.uk> writes:

    Robin> I use Tcl and have been trying to use Python. I hate and
    Robin> love things about both. My principle beef with python is
    Robin> the use of invisible structuring ie white space
    Robin> counts. Would it really have made that much difference to
    Robin> the language to have a statement terminator? An occasional

I don't think this makes sense.  The issue of white-space
"structuring" is one of statement *grouping*, not statement
termination.  If python's statement terminator were ';' instead of
newline, that wouldn't change anything about its use of indentation.
It would just make blocks look like this:

if foo:
   foo1();
   foo2();
   foo3();

instead of

if foo:
   foo1()
   foo2()
   foo3()

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Lyn Headley
remove the word "bogus" from my address for the real one.


 
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