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> > On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 03:48 PM, John Cowan wrote: > > > > Python is essentially Scheme with indentation instead of parentheses. > > Yeah, which seems fragile to me considering the number of programs and > editors I have lying around that silently convert tabs to n spaces and > vice versa - it just doesn't strike me as a robust syntax design. I'm sorry, but it strikes you wrongly. Corruption of Python source files is no more a problem with Python than it is with any othr language, in my long experience with it (and other languages). For the very rare cases where tab/space is a problem, tabnanny.py is a very effective "lint", and usually does the trick. -- Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc. http://uche.ogbuji.net http://4Suite.org http://fourthought.com Python&XML column: 2. Introducing PyXML - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/09/25/p y.html The Past, Present and Future of Web Services 1 - http://www.webservices.org/ind ex.php/article/articleview/663/1/24/ The Past, Present and Future of Web Services 2 - 'http://www.webservices.org/in dex.php/article/articleview/679/1/24/ Serenity through markup - http://adtmag.com/article.asp?id=6807 Tip: Using generators for XML processing - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerwork s/xml/library/x-tipgenr.html
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