Markus Wolff at Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:45:19 +0100

When I first looked into Python, I really welcomed the no braces approach - I think it makes code much more easily readable. And given the legacy codebases I've been subjected to recently, it would be a true blessing if PHP scripts would simply break if someone got the indentation wrong (*shudder*). Also, I find when reading books on software development, I can read the Python examples more easily, because it is much clearer which code belongs to which block even when the example spans over more than one page. Regarding detecting mating structures more easily when using braces, I have to disagree as well... when I was wearing braces as a teenager, I feld that this highly impaired my ability to take part in any kind of mating structures, since braces are mostly not considered very attractive. Imagine how mysterious and interesting I would've been if I actually had a Python instead.... uhm, am I still on-topic here? ;-)