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Re: Nonsense
by Christian on Tuesday 18/Sep/2001, @11:35

What does 4 spaces mean ? 4 spaces.
What do you intend when putting them ? Indent.

Just as the newline character means a new line,
et the tab mean indentation (or tabulation).
That was it is for.

The first thing you learn while writing XML/SGML
documents is that contents is not presentation.
You waste your time if you take care of presentation
(ie : counting tabs, and why 4 tabs after all - it's
a presentation choice) while coding. Tabs acts as
a XML tag that says... indent !

Let your editor handle the look of your code, and
put only the core meaning in your files.

(of course, that's my opinion... and no, I do not
want to troll ;-)

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Re: Nonsense
by Evan "JabberWokky" E. on Tuesday 18/Sep/2001, @12:00

: The first thing you learn while writing XML/SGML
: documents is that contents is not presentation.

Damn it, I
took your
concept to heart
,
and now my python
programs won't
run!

--
Evan

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Re: Nonsense
by Christian on Tuesday 18/Sep/2001, @13:39

You misunderstood me. In python, indentation is part
of the semantic. Presentation has nothing to do with
indentation, you can indent with tab (a language that
doesn't accept that is a broken one).

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Re: Nonsense
by Evan "JabberWokky" E. on Wednesday 19/Sep/2001, @12:36

:: You misunderstood me. In python, indentation is part
:: of the semantic. Presentation has nothing to do with

In python, indentation is part of the semantic
information used by the interpreter. In C++,
indentation is part of the semantic information used
by the coder.

Otherwise, why comment code? It does not carry any
semantic information that the compiler cares about...

--
Evan

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