Python-like tabs instead of curley brackets?

[Chris Nicholson-Sauls]

Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> Daniel Giddings escribió:
>> Get an editor that understands Python ;-) Most will either use 
>> whatever that code block uses, or highlight the problem indentation in 
>> bright red.
>>
>> Personally I much prefer the Python way of doing indentation, after 
>> all you indent your code anyway making the curly braces somewhat 
>> redundant (and I program about equally in C/C++ and Python).
> 
> And I found all the people who don't like indent blocks is people that 
> doesn't use them for too long. Sure at first is horrible, shocking, but 
> when you get used to, there's no way back.
> 
> Bracket (and sentence terminators) are syntactic noise[1].
> 
> [1] http://xlr.sourceforge.net/concept/synnoise.html
> 

A friend of mine spent four years or so of his life up to his waist in Python, as the 
maintainer and new feature developer of a popular bittorrent client.  (Trying to avoid 
names here... :))  When the original developer became interested in taking back his 
project, my friend was only too happy to give it to him and go back to C.

Personally, I only touched Python for about a year and a half and found it too difficult 
for myself to work with.  I guess I'm just too darn dependant on visual cues and layout 
aesthetics to make it easier to read my code.  I'll take my flexibility-offering noise any 
day.  Even Pascal-like begin/end keywords don't bother me.  (Not even LambdaMOO's 
IF...ENDIF, FOR...ENDFOR, etc.  At least they're darn clear. ;))

-- Chris Nicholson-Sauls