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On 09/25/2011 01:50 AM, Graylin Kim wrote:
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> Graylin Kim<graylin.kim@gmail.com> added the comment:
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> I fully support taking blank line based line-wrapping approach and agree with Zbyszek's suggested indentation approach as well. I am not sure why they didn't occur to me at the time but they are certainly a more effective and widely adopted approaches to the structured text problem.
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> I suppose here is where I should volunteer to update the patch file...
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> Re: Bike-shedding
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>> dash '-' has special meaning in brackets:
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> Good catch, I had intended on '-' being a valid list item character. It clearly needs to be escaped. Not that it would matter given your proposed alternative.
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>>> if(list_match):
>> Parenthesis unnecessary.
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> In my defense I have the sadistic pleasure of coding in PHP where they are necessary for 8 hours a day for my day job. I can only apologize profusely for my offense and beg for forgiveness :)
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:)
>>> lines = list()
>> Why not just 'lines = []'?
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> Not to get off topic, but I happen to like list() and dict() instead of [] and {} for empty collections. If there are non-religious reasons for avoiding this practice I'll consider it. I don't want to invoke a holy war here, just wondering if there are practical reasons.
In general brevity is good, but I agree that this is just a style 
question, and not very important here.
This wasn't my intention, I was only saying that due to this bug the 
wrapping uses fixed width, but I'm hoping that #13041 will be 
successfully resolved.