On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 1:11 AM, Joe Landman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > YAML is nice until you accidentally change indentation. Then the game is > over. Having bolluxed up many fortran codes in my (distant past), I have to > say "just say no" to things *requiring* indentation. In YAML's case, it > suffers from the same problem with Python (yeah, I am gonna get some nasty > dirty emails now). Structure by indentation is IMO *evil*. I have heard > that GvR actually agrees with this, though that is 3rd order hearsay.
<snarky> Unlike C where getting the bracket nesting wrong can never mess up the code and no one has ever been caught out by the indenting not matching the bracketing. </snarky :)> Fortran was bad because you had to line things up in particular columns [1]. The "significant whitespace is bad" was really just a slogan for "we don't like how early versions of Fortran did things". Python (and Haskell) don't work like early Fortran did either. [1] This seems to have been the result of mapping the code to punch cards. Schiavo Simon _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
