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Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 21:01:56 +0100
Subject: Re: allow line break at operators
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> wrote:
> I've seen people in C do stuff like:
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0for (i =3D 0; i < N; ++i);
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0a[i] =3D 0;
>
> This is clearly a case where indentation matches intent, but doesn't matc=
h
> functionality, because C allows indentation to not-match functionality; t=
his
> is the famous problem Python is solving.
>

There's several solutions to this. One is linting utilities that
detect unexpectedly-indented code, which is the concept that Python
took to the logical extent of syntactic errors. Another is (again
linting) to disallow a direct trailing semicolon; if you want an empty
body, you put whitespace before the semicolon.

But that wasn't your point, I realise :)

ChrisA