Indentation (Was: Re: MoonScript ...

[Dirk Laurie <dpl@...>]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 11:58:53AM +0200, Pierre Chapuis wrote:
> 
>    if x: doThings(x)
>    else: doThings(y)
> 
> I am not sure you can cleanly make this a one liner though.

Python 2.5 and later (don't have the older serpents around):

    doThings(x) if x else doThings(y)

> An approach I like to solve the problem and make everybody
> happy is the one used by the Go language: whitespace is not
> significant but there is a canonical indentation style and
> a tool (gofmt) that enforces it.
> 
The style used in PiL is a candidate.

> I don't see a reason why this wouldn't work with Lua. It is
> probably possible to make a parser that takes valid Lua code
> and returns a canonical representation for it.
> 
For example: if you make an entry in LuaWiki that contains in
its source
  {{{!Lua
...
}}}
it would not merely highlight keywords as it does now, but also
do the indents.  It would show up canonically, no matter how it
was typed in. Why not?

Dirk