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Roel Schroeven rschroev_nospam_ml at fastmail.fm
Sun Dec 4 05:36:20 EST 2005 
Dave Hansen wrote:
> It's far more interesting to me _why_ people think indentation scoping
> is a bad thing.  The answer I get back fall into two general
> categories: 1) I've heard/read/been told it's a bad thing, and 2) It
> causes portability problems.

I can tell you why it freightened me at first: it made me think of the
rigid formatting of Fortran 77 and to a lesser extent BASIC. But when I
started working my way trough the tutorial, that fear very rapidly vanished.

-- 
If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood
on the shoulders of giants.  -- Isaac Newton

Roel Schroeven
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