why ; ?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"terranium" <spam at here.lot> wrote in message 
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> Nick Sabalausky Wrote:
>
>> Python's semantically-meaningful indentation was intended to fix the 
>> problem
>> of poorly-indented code by enforcing proper indentation in the language 
>> and
>> compiler. But the problem is, it *doesn't* actually enforce it.
>
> :-/ It's a hard task to keep code poorly formatted in MS Visual Studio, 
> since a code formatter is built into editor.

Exactly. That's the second reason I disagree with Python's rationale for 
their indentation mechanism: Automatic code formatters already solve the 
issue without introducing hidden bugs. And, they're relatively easy to 
implement anyway, or at least compared to a full-blown compiler (especially 
if you write it in D ;-) ).