Re: Python (was Re: I did not inhale)

On 26/08/2024 22:35, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Mon, 26 Aug 2024 08:33:30 -0700, John Ames wrote:
 

... the simple fact that Guido & co. made a boneheaded choice like that
is the reason I'll never be able to *respect* it, even when I do find
myself using it.

 I restore the redundancy by using “#end” comments. E.g. a seriously
nontrivial case:

This might the human reader but the redundancy really needs to be supported by the language.
Here, that s2 line has been knocked out of place; the indent is missing. But the language can't detect it, even with #end; it makes s2 unconditional:
     if c:
         s1
     s2
     #end
With language support:
     if c:
         s1
     s2
     end
Here the redundancy means the compiler knows both s1 and s2 are in the same conditional block, and it can choose to report an indentation inconsistency.