A look at the D programming language by Ferdynand Górski

renoX renozyx at gmail.com
Wed Jan 16 07:55:06 PST 2013


On Tuesday, 15 January 2013 at 13:43:12 UTC, Chris wrote:
> On Tuesday, 15 January 2013 at 12:36:42 UTC, bearophile wrote:
>> Chris:
>>
>>> Nested for loops with if-statements can be hard on the eye in 
>>> Python, because you have to go back an double check on which 
>>> level you actually are
>>
>> If you use the standard 4 spaces indentations and you don't 
>> have ten indentation levels this problem is not common. Some 
>> persons also avoid your problem with an editor that shows thin 
>> vertical lines every 4 spaces (but only where the lines are 
>> actually reaching that length).
>>
>>
>
> It happens very quickly if you have a class, a def, a nested 
> for loop with one or two if statements
>
> class:
>     def:
>         for:
>             if:
>
> You could call it "south west" code.

I'm not sure what is your point, even with 5 level of 
indentations and the standard 4 space indentations, on a normal 
80 colum window you still have 3/4 of the window for the code..

renoX


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