From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten@thorstenkampe.de>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: named directory expansion on strings
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 22:24:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <97ksxgxix48t$.dlg@thorstenkampe.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1040314185437.ZM6792@candle.brasslantern.com>
* Bart Schaefer (2004-03-14 19:54 +0100)
> On Mar 13, 6:48pm, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
>: Fortunately, I found a better way[1]. Any style comments on my first
>: /really complicated/ ;-) zsh shell script welcome!
>
> Nothing major ...
>
> [...]
Thanks for the tips.
>: Long live the Zen of Python[2].
>
> Hrm. As far as I'm concerned, the Python folks went wrong when they gave
> semantic significance to depth of whitespace indentation, and all of the
> right decisions they've made since have been a waste of effort.
Interesting. Everyone says that indentation is good and has a semantic
significance for the programmer. And as soon as the compiler is made
to honor this significance they say: "oh, no, give me back my braces,
curls, parentheses and "END"s, "fi"s, "done"s, etc.
Thorsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-14 21:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-13 3:29 Thorsten Kampe
2004-03-13 6:41 ` Bart Schaefer
2004-03-13 17:48 ` Thorsten Kampe
2004-03-14 18:54 ` Bart Schaefer
2004-03-14 21:24 ` Thorsten Kampe [this message]
2004-03-14 21:57 ` Python/zsh/perl [was: named directory expansion on strings] Vincent Stemen
2004-03-15 4:00 ` Jos Backus
2004-03-15 7:04 ` [OT]Python/zsh/perl " Bob Schmertz
2004-03-15 23:37 ` [OT]Python/zsh/perl Vincent Stemen
2004-03-17 4:03 ` [OT]Python/zsh/perl [was: named directory expansion on strings] Eric Mangold
2004-03-14 22:19 ` named directory expansion on strings Thorsten Kampe
2004-03-14 23:19 ` Bart Schaefer
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