hi,

"Mr" <m******r******at_hotmail_dot_fr> wrote:
> I'm sure more expert people in various languages will be able to teach me
> something important from what is probably a naive question :  What if in POV 4
> we had the possibility to use spaces or tabs as a synonym to what curly braces
> currently do, but we could still use those braces themselves ?

I'd be interested to learn what (tangible) gain(s) you see in that.


> That way new comers would feel at first glance that the language is as easy to
> learn as Python, and would rapidly understand as they do in Python, that what
> matters is that they do know what scope they're in.

right, and Icelanders and Germans could simply switch to English :-).


>
> and eventually, depending on *whichever* option gets to become the most popular
> among core developers and power users, it can become a maintenance cost
> reduction to drop one or the other?
>
> Inspiration for this idea? of course, python... I love how it has grown able to
> do type annotations, switch cases, etc. and while across versions leverage many
> advanced concepts teaching them to me as it went, and now they are there, I love
> how a new comer could still pick it up exactly the way I did, with a human
> readable almost fiction-book like syntax, and still produce scripts that do
> work, syntactic-sugar-free.  BUT I know there must be a reason why those curly
> braces are still there isn't there? so I trust people to tell me... maybe so
> that POV acts as a launching pad to learn C-like languages in which it is itself
> developed?

I'd like to see you post a bit of "mocked up" scene code to illustrate the
benefits; I guess you'd like something like 'union box 0 1 sphere 0 .5 ' ?

fwiw, even _if_ I thought Python a good language I'd endorse Ilya's view:
"...and those newcomers will quickly find themselves producing mixed syntaxis,
then trying to understand what the heck is this."


regards, jr.

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