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Re: semicolon at end of python's statements

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On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 7:39 PM, Alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Yet no doubt you voluntarily indent your c code to make it readable?
> it wont take long before you find you don't even think about indentation
> and actually like it

Most of the time, in any language, I will indeed have indentation
matching the syntactic structure of the code (which is what Python
demands). But I like the flexibility of having the indentation under
_my_ control, not under the language's, because my rule is that it
should match the *logical*, not syntactic, structure. For instance,
here's how code looks that iterates over an array:

foreach (some_array, mixed val)
{
    //do something with val
}

And here's how it looks if I want to iterate over a filtered version
of the array:

foreach (some_array, mixed val) if (some_condition)
{
    //do something with val
}

There's no language support required. It reads like a Python
list-comp, simply adding a condition as part of the loop header. But
it technically breaks the indentation rules, and Python doesn't allow
this sort of thing. In Python, this particular example is probably
best done with a generator expression in the for loop, but there are
other cases where I combine two physical structural levels into a
single line and indent level.

ChrisA

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Re: semicolon at end of python's statements "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com> - 2013-08-28 22:10 -0400
  Re: semicolon at end of python's statements Alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2013-08-29 09:39 +0000
    Re: semicolon at end of python's statements Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-29 19:52 +1000
    Re: semicolon at end of python's statements Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-08-29 11:02 +0100
    Re: semicolon at end of python's statements Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-08-30 08:17 +1000
    Re: semicolon at end of python's statements Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-30 08:50 +1000
    Re: semicolon at end of python's statements Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-08-30 14:55 +1000
    Re: semicolon at end of python's statements Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2013-08-30 09:15 +0200
    Re: semicolon at end of python's statements Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-30 17:25 +1000
    Re: semicolon at end of python's statements Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2013-08-30 09:48 +0200
    Re: semicolon at end of python's statements Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-08-30 11:32 +0100
      Re: semicolon at end of python's statements Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-08-30 06:53 -0400
        Re: semicolon at end of python's statements Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2013-08-30 16:14 +0200
        Re: semicolon at end of python's statements Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-31 08:18 +1000
      Re: semicolon at end of python's statements Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-08-31 00:09 +0000
        Re: semicolon at end of python's statements Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-08-31 01:03 -0400
        Re: semicolon at end of python's statements Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2013-08-31 10:47 +0300
          Re: semicolon at end of python's statements Paul Rudin <paul.nospam@rudin.co.uk> - 2013-08-31 09:00 +0100
            Re: semicolon at end of python's statements Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2013-08-31 13:28 +0300
            Re: semicolon at end of python's statements Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-09-02 14:20 +0000
              Re: semicolon at end of python's statements Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-09-02 09:45 -0500
                Re: semicolon at end of python's statements Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-09-02 10:47 -0400
                Re: semicolon at end of python's statements Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-09-02 12:58 -0500
                Re: semicolon at end of python's statements Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-09-03 07:07 +1000
        Re: semicolon at end of python's statements Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2013-09-01 19:58 +0200
        Re: semicolon at end of python's statements Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2013-09-01 21:58 +0200
          Re: semicolon at end of python's statements Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-09-02 08:05 +0000
            Re: semicolon at end of python's statements Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2013-09-02 11:45 +0200
            Re: semicolon at end of python's statements Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-09-02 11:42 +0100
            Re: semicolon at end of python's statements Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2013-09-02 12:58 +0200
            Re: semicolon at end of python's statements "albert visser" <albert.visser@gmail.com> - 2013-09-02 19:44 +0200
              Re: semicolon at end of python's statements Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-09-02 13:53 -0400
                Re: semicolon at end of python's statements Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-09-03 17:15 +0000
                Re: semicolon at end of python's statements Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-09-03 20:00 +0000
            Re: semicolon at end of python's statements Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-09-02 17:24 -0400
        Re: semicolon at end of python's statements MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-09-02 00:30 +0100
        Re: semicolon at end of python's statements Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2013-09-02 10:29 +0200
          Re: semicolon at end of python's statements Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-09-02 09:52 +0000
            Re: semicolon at end of python's statements Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-09-02 20:14 +1000
              Re: semicolon at end of python's statements Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-09-02 14:57 +0000
            Re: semicolon at end of python's statements Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2013-09-02 12:52 +0200
            Re: semicolon at end of python's statements Modulok <modulok@gmail.com> - 2013-09-02 17:17 -0600
              Re: semicolon at end of python's statements Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-09-02 19:54 -0400
                Re: semicolon at end of python's statements Modulok <modulok@gmail.com> - 2013-09-02 18:56 -0600

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