> As long as there is an indentation escape mechanism, 
> nesting by indentation
> seems like a good idea, at least without having tried it.  

I was very sceptic when I was introduced to this indendation (way back
at university, the language was ABC, a predecessor of Python). After
using it for a few years now I am satisfied with it, with one exception:
for debugging purposes I often want to (temporarily) disable a few
instructions. In other languages this can be done by enclosing the
statments in an if(false)..endif or something similar, but not in
Python. There is no block comment either, so you must insert an if(0):
*and* indent the range of statements. I find this the only annoying
aspect of the bloks-by-indendation mechanism. I guess a block comment
would solve it.

Olin: no, there is no escape from the indendation mechanism. If you need
as many levels as your comment seems to indicate I think you should
restructure your code. Or maybe when you convert your code to Python you
would not need that many levels because of the control structures Python
offers.

Wouter van Ooijen

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