Re: Compress a sequence of ends

[Mike Nelson <mikestar1313@...>]

On 7/21/2011 8:01 PM, Jason White wrote:
> > Better idea, use white-space to designate blocks, but put it after the
> > statement, not before. That way you can't see that pesky rubbish at
> > all.
> >
> > Much cleaner.
> Yes indeed, I a big fan of pythons white-space* blocking scheme !
> Perhaps I should write my own port of lua to do just that ?
>
> *Tabs are far superior to spaces

Lua isn't Python--and for every programmer who loves Python's 
significant whitespace, there is another who hates it. I'm one--I have 
managed to learn Visual Basic (6 and .Net),
C, C++, C#, Delphi, Pascal, various assembly languages, Euphoria, Ruby, 
COBOL, FORTRAN, PL/1, and now Lua. Some of those languages are easier to 
use than others and my expertise varies, but I've never been able to 
wrap my mind around Python code--though from reading about it, Python 
seems to be a fine language.