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*** Okay. But if there was one thing I could change about the basic nature of the language, this would be it. It can be very difficult to remember how many spaces you need to put, if you're adding a line after a complex series of blocks. -mkanat | *** Okay. But if there was one thing I could change about the basic nature of the language, this would be it. It can be very difficult to remember how many spaces you need to put, if you're adding a line after a complex series of blocks. -mkanat | ||
**** That's a feature. Seriously. You're complaining about Perl being too hard to read, and Python is designed so that totally unreadable code won't compile. Do you really want to review patches where someone has managed to get the braces in the right place but the indentation wrong? I'm actually quite surprised to see someone looking primarily for a maintainable language and not putting this in Python's "pro" column. I often hear it called "executable pseudocode" because it's so readable, and the indentation-based syntax contributes to that. -Slamb | **** That's a feature. Seriously. You're complaining about Perl being too hard to read, and Python is designed so that totally unreadable code won't compile. Do you really want to review patches where someone has managed to get the braces in the right place but the indentation wrong? I'm actually quite surprised to see someone looking primarily for a maintainable language and not putting this in Python's "pro" column. I often hear it called "executable pseudocode" because it's so readable, and the indentation-based syntax contributes to that. -Slamb | ||
***** Yeah, I know. I suppose different people feel different ways about it. We don't have too many problems with indentation anymore, although we used to in older Bugzilla code. It's just hard when there are lines that are two blocks out after the end of one inner block--you can't really tell what block the line is in. -mkanat | |||
* Poor Unicode handling--strings are ASCII by default, and are Unicode only if you prepend them with u, like u"string". | * Poor Unicode handling--strings are ASCII by default, and are Unicode only if you prepend them with u, like u"string". | ||