APL\360 (Was: cctalk Digest, Vol 76, Issue 29

[Fred Cisin]

Actually, that was Chuck who said that "there be monsters" when languages 
use whitespace rather than punctuation to denote boundaries.

I use both indentation for my readability AND brackets to be explicit.

Consider:
if condition
{  do this;
    do that;
}

VS:
if (condition)
   do this;
   do that;   /* will be done disunirregardless of condition */


On Sat, 30 Jan 2021, Mark Moulding via cctalk wrote:

> On 1/29/21 12:58 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
>>> I like indentation, and demanded it from my students.
>> 
>> That's fine, but when you have a language that makes indentation part of
>> the language (i.e. no braces, brackets or keywords denoting boundaries
>> of the block) , there be monsters.
>> 
>> And yes, there are such languages.
>
> Uh - Python comes to mind...
> ~~
> Mark Moulding
>