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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Python (was Re: I did not inhale)
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 02:55:06 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 29 Aug 2024 16:57:21 -0700, Keith Thompson wrote:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
> [...]
>> Think about why you bother to indent code in languages where the
>> compiler ignores such indentation anyway: it means you are expressing
>> the structure of code in two different ways, one via statement
>> brackets, and the other via indentation. This redundancy aids in
>> understanding that the code does what you think it does.
>>
>> Python gets rid of this redundancy, by having the compiler take notice
>> of the whitespace and removing the statement bracketing symbols. So I
>> put it back, by adding statement bracketing symbols that the compiler
>> ignores.

Another reason for “#end” comments is they give me something to jump to in 
the editor.

I have Emacs commands defined to move quickly between lines with matching 
indentation. Since I have these at the beginning and end of every compound 
construct, that allows me easy navigation around my code.