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From Apple to Raspberry Pi: Look ma! No Braces!!

I recently found a Post on Google Plus from Codelect.net that only a programmer would love:

Of course this is an endless debate of where to put the braces of a block of code.  C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Objective-C and even CSS uses those lovely curly braces.

Python does something totally mind tripping to me: it doesn’t use them. Here’s the same if statement in Python:

if condition:
    Statements
    #a comment ...

In Python there is no braces:only white space. By convention there are four spaces. When there is no more indent, no more block.

Of course I do a lot of indentation in Xcode. But that is just documentation. In Python it’s syntax — and you can nest them too!

Another thing for me to swallow.

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