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> On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 03:48 PM, John Cowan wrote:
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> > Python is essentially Scheme with indentation instead of parentheses.
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> 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.
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Python&XML column: 2. Introducing PyXML - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/09/25/p
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The Past, Present and Future of Web Services 1 - http://www.webservices.org/ind
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dex.php/article/articleview/679/1/24/
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