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From: Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Guido sees the light: PEP 8 updated
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 10:24:08 +0100
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On 20 April 2016 at 07:08, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
> On 4/19/2016 11:41 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 1:23 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> It kinda looks like Hypertalk syntax, which some of you may remember I'm
>>>> exceedingly fond of. There's no reason why a GUI editor couldn't display
>>>> Python code using such "building block" structure. E.g. indented blocks
>>>> could use colour and shape cues to reinforce the structure of the code,
>>>> just as Scratch does.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> That is an interesting idea.  Perhaps I have been stuck in either/or
>>> thinking -- either graphical or textual. With tk Text (IDLE), it would be
>>> possible to tag each (4-space) indent with a color for the compound
>>> statememt keywork causing the indent.
>>>
>>
>> Interesting indeed! Tell me if I've understood you correctly. You'd
>> display this code:
>>
>> def func(x):
>>     for n in range(1, x):
>>         while n < x:
>>             if n % 2:
>>                 n = (n + 1) * 3 / 2
>>             else:
>>                 n = n * 2 + 3
>>
>> with stripes of colour, with the entire first column of spaces all
>> tied to the "def", and then the next block of four tied to the "for",
>> etc?
>
>
> Exactly.

Take a look at bluej which is for Java. It surrounds different
constructs with different coloured rectangles. It also provides
UML-ish views of the classes in a project. My students seemed to like
it.

--
Oscar