Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Mark H Harris Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: OT: This Swift thing Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 16:49:55 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <34564700423508781.788278sturla.molden-gmail.com@news.gmane.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: eSF12mcVRIwL+eMIMJ03mA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:72554 On 6/3/14 3:43 PM, Sturla Molden wrote: > Nicholas Cole wrote: > {snip} > Unfortunately they retained the curly brackets from JS... > The curly braces come from C, and before that B and A/. (I think others used them too before that, but it escapes me now and I'm too lazy to google it) ... but the point is that curly braces don't come from JS ! I have been engaged in a minor flame debate (locally) over block delimiters (or lack thereof) which I'm loosing. Locally, people hate python's indentation block delimiting, and wish python would adopt curly braces. I do not agree, of course; however, I am noticing when new languages come out they either use END (as in Julia) or they propagate the curly braces paradigm as in C. The issue locally is trying to pass code snippets around the net informally is a problem with indentation. My reply is, well, don't do that. For what I see as a freedom issue, folks want to format their white space (style) their way and don't want to be forced into an indentation paradigm that is rigid (or no so much!). We even have a couple of clucks on our side of the world that refuse to even get their feet wet in python because they hate the indentation paradigm. marcus