Re: FGATAW - the compantion to a FAQ

[Courage]

"Python is bad because it has white-space identiation rules"

saw it innumerable times.

[Jenda]

Well, I think this statement is understandable. It does sound strange and feel awkward at first. But I believe it's something you can easily get used to. I've never used Python myself, but I used to program in Clean which uses (optionaly) the whitespace indentation rules as well and got used to it much sooner than expected. But it surely did sound crazy at first.

[Cap'n Steve]

Not necessarily bad, just annoying. There's something oh so wrong about escaping new lines. Not '\n', I'm talking about:

$var = "this\
is\
one line";