Delight

[Bill Baxter]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 4:24 AM, Charles Hixson <charleshixsn at earthlink.net>
wrote:
> bearophile wrote:
>>
>> Sergey Gromov:
>>>
>>> I'd like to look at some real-world example written in Delight.
>>
>> I have not tried to run it yet because it's for Linux for now.
>>
>>
>>> I'm afraid that the lack of global state will result in either a huge
>>> amount of arguments passed to every function or huge ad-hoc interfaces
>>> grouping other interfaces just to pass some functionality up-stream.
>>
>> I agree, that's one of the main things I think have to be fixed in
>> Delight, having global vars (and maybe a global main function too).
>>
>> The other main problem comes from the tabs as indents, this explains why
>> it's bad:
>> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2003-January/183758.html
>>
>> There are other problems in Delight, but I think they are minor.
>>
>> There's a (for me) surprisingly large discussion on Reddit about Delight,
>> 82 comments so far:
>> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/73d15/d_meets_python/
>>
>> Bye,
>> bearophile
>
> I disagree.  I always use tabs.  This allows me to adjust the indentation
> width on the fly and as needed, which spaces would not allow.
Did you even read the doc Bearophile posted?  If so try rebutting the
arguments there. That point is specifically addressed in the thing he linked
to.

--bb
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