for loop parens

[QAston]

On Saturday, 13 July 2013 at 04:56:19 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Saturday, July 13, 2013 06:42:57 QAston wrote:
>> On Friday, 12 July 2013 at 20:46:21 UTC, ixid wrote:
>> > Yes, I don't expect anyone to change their opinion though
>> > frankly the anti-groups opinions feel more like attachment to
>> > the status quo than something that's evidently and 
>> > demonstrably
>> > superior.
>> 
>> I think that Python has syntax evidently and demonstrably
>> superior to D. Why not Python?
>
> I think that that's very disputable. In general, which syntax 
> is better than
> another syntax is very subjective. Personally, I hate Python's 
> syntax and find
> it far harder to deal with than that of languages like C/C++ or 
> D. The lack of
> braces alone is a huge annoyance for editing code (being able 
> to hop between
> braces in an editor is invaluable for getting to the beginning 
> and end of
> functions, scopes, classes, etc.), and it's easy enough to find 
> rants where
> people have had bugs in their python code due to spacing issues 
> and how it
> cost them hours to find them.
>
> Yes. Some people prefer python's syntax, but I don't see how 
> anyone could
> possibly claim that it was demonstratably superior. It's 
> primarily a
> subjective issue, and from what I've seen, the objective 
> portions of the
> argument are very much against python as having braces and 
> semicolons and the
> like makes the code more explicit and therefore less prone to 
> scoping issues.
> So while that tradeoff may very well be worth it for some 
> people, it's
> certainly not an objective advantage for python's syntax.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

I agree, I was just playing games with ixid.