[Python-Dev] [PATCH] Adding braces to future (original) (raw)

Cedric Sodhi manday at gmx.net
Fri Dec 9 23:29:30 CET 2011

On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 02:21:42PM -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote:

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Cedric Sodhi <[1]manday at gmx.net> wrote:

IF YOU THINK YOU MUST REPLY SOMETHING WITTY, ITERATE THAT THIS HAD BEEN DISCUSSED BEFORE, REPLY THAT "IT'S SIMPLY NOT GO'NNA HAPPEN", THAT "WHO DOESN'T LIKE IT IS FREE TO CHOOSE ANOTHER LANGUAGE" OR SOMETHING SIMILAR, JUST DON'T. Every single response in this thread so far has ignored this request. The correct response honoring this should have been deafening silence. For me, if I had to design a new language today, I would probably use braces, not because they're better than whitespace, but because pretty much every other lanugage uses them, and there are more interesting concepts to distinguish a new language. That said, I don't regret that Python uses indentation, and the rest I have to say about the topic would violate the above request.

I think this deserves a reply. Thank you for contributing your opinion and respecting my request and therefore honoring the rules of a civilized debate.

-- Cedric

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