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Re: Reader option to permit brackets as parentheses
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- Subject: Re: Reader option to permit brackets as parentheses
- From: "Jon 'tex' Boone" <tex@delamancha.org>
- Date: 01 Jul 1999 06:30:05 -0400
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Chris Bitmead <cbitmead@ozemail.com.au> writes:
> Is that what python is? Sounds like a _very_ bad idea to have code
> meaning depending on whitespace.
Python is a block structured language that uses indentation (i.e. # of
columns in from the left edge) as the block-membership indicator, in
lieu of {}.
()s are available for expression grouping, as they are in C.
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Jon 'tex' Boone
tex@delamancha.org