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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Python (was Re: I did not inhale)
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 02:49:19 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 26 Aug 2024 23:51:40 +0100, Bart wrote:

> This might [...] the human reader but the redundancy really needs to be 
> supported by the language.

Consider what I mean by “redundancy”: it means the structure of the code 
is expressed two different ways.

In a conventional language with statement bracketing symbols, the compiler 
ignores the indentation, but you use that to delineate the same structure 
as defined by the actual language symbols, thereby providing redundancy to 
the human reader.

In Python, the compiler goes by the indentation, so I add standins for 
statement bracketing symbols in the form of “#end” comments: these are 
ignored by the compiler, but I use that as an alternative, redundant way 
of delineating the same program structure to the human reader.