[csw-maintainers] checkpkg error

[Ben Walton]

On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Peter FELECAN <pfelecan at opencsw.org> wrote:
> Yann Rouillard <yann at pleiades.fr.eu.org> writes:
>
>> I found the bug. A mistake in code indentation but leading to an error in
>> the execution path.
>
> This why, syntactically, Python throws me back in the glorious times of
> FORTRAN and COBOL on punched cards in the seventh decade of the last
> century... Semantically it's all right, the way back effect is lesser.

I agree with your sentiment.  Personally, I'm ok with indentation as
syntax but I keep coming back to the fact that Guido didn't go far
enough.  There is a sigil (colon) involved before indentation can
increase but not before it can decrease.  Had vertical spacing been
made a part of the syntax as well as horizontal, this whole class of
(easy to make) mistakes would be avoided.  I'd argue that a blank line
should have been required before the indentation level could be
decreased.  I wouldn't have been quite as visible as an "end" token or
braces but it would help, I think.

Thanks
-Ben