On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Justin Bradford wrote: > I miss enclosed blocks, but otherwise I'm doing ok. > { > whitespace usage should > be random . you can just parse around > > it. > } Regarding this problem, I think we could hack up a preprocessor in perl to convert stuff like this to standard python, sorta like cpp but customized for python. There could also be a line we put that the top that defines the format of this file. We could also make deprocessors to convert from one format to the cannonical style of the other. Just some of my many ramblings... -- -> -\-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-/^\-=-=-=<*><*>=-=-=-/^\-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-/- <- -> -/-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=/ { Rahul -<>- Jain } \=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-\- <- -> -\- "I never could get the hang of Thursdays." - HHGTTG by DNA -/- <- -> -/- http://photino.sid.rice.edu/ -=- mailto:rahul-jain at usa.net -\- <- |--|--------|--------------|----|-------------|------|---------|-----|-| -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GED/S/CS/MD/M/P/O/U/! d->-- s:-(--) a--->? C++(+++)$ UL++++$ P+++$>++++ L+++$>++++ !E--(----)? W++$>+++ N+(--) o>++++$ K? !w---()>? !O? M+ !V--? !PS+? PE+() Y+(++) PGP>+ t !5-->? !X-- R>+ !tv-(+) b+>++ DI+(+++)>++++ D++@>$ G e(*)>++++>+++++>$ h-()>++ r? y? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ See also: http://www.hewgill.com/ogr/ http://www.douglasadams.com Version 11.423.999.210000101.23.50110101.042 (c)1996-1999, All rights reserved. Disclaimer available upon request.