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Do you think Microsoft can convince him to drop the whitespace-as-syntax?
by pearjuice 6y ago
Do you think Microsoft can convince him to drop the whitespace-as-syntax?
- jedberg 6y agoWhy? That's my most favorite part of Python. It makes the code so much more readable.
- throw_m239339 6y agoRuby manages to be much more readable without the white spaces. The fault with Ruby is its less useful stb lib and lesser performances.
- orf 6y agoIMO Ruby is far, far less readable. Way more magic, endless ways to do the same things with slight differences (blocks, procs and lambdas) etc. Plus everyone mostly indents the code the same as Python anyway... so. Meh.
- likpok 6y agoIn the age of autoformatters it makes moving code around more painful. In C++ I can write some janky looking code and autoformat it into respectability. I can stop caring about whitespace entirely (while still producing readable results). In python I need to write correctly-indented code because the autoformatter can't figure out if the lack of indentation is meaningful or not.
- jedberg 6y agoThat seems like a silly argument. That would be like saying I don't like languages that require semicolons because then I have to remember to put in semicolons. The whitespace is part of the syntax. Just like in some languages putting a semicolon at the end is part of the syntax. And for the most part, your IDE will take care of whitespace anyway.
- blargmaster42_8 6y agoLet's hope so, that and not beeing properly typed keeps me from using it.