The compiler is going to ignore all of this so-called "pretty printing" -- all of this sort of indentation, -- all of this white space -- that's really for the human's benefits, both yours, your colleagues, the teaching staff, and the like.

编译器会忽略所有的叫做,“优美打印“--所有的这类缩进，所有的这些空格-,只是为了我们的利益，也是你的，你的同事，教员的和其他人的利益。

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Palindrome 1 I'm going to give it a little indentation so that we can see this. OK.

应该是,我加一点儿缩进好让我们能看到它。

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The indentation gives you a visual cue as to which lines are related to each other.

通过缩进你可以看出,那些行是相互关联的。

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And to see that I've written another version of this, which I'm going to use here, where I'm going to give it a little indentation.

我已经写另一个版本的代码,我将把它用在这儿，我会在这儿加一点儿缩进。

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And that set of things is identified by the sequence of commands that are indented in, this one right here, following the colon but before I get back to the same place in terms of the indentation.

这个集合就是,后面缩进的一系列命令，就是这一块，在冒号后面,但是要,通过缩进。

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the choice of indentation here is deliberate throughout programming whether it's in C or PHP or JavaScript in this particular course.

不管是C，PHP还是JavaScript语言,通过缩进一些,程序块是有目的的。

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I just doubled the indentation each time so you can see it. So each successive call, notice what's happening. The argument is getting reduced. And we're going another level in. When we get down to this point, we're calling it with just a string of length one.

因此每次成功调用注意它的过程,我们的命题不断简化，而且我们不断深入嵌套,当我们走到这一步的时候,我们就是在调用它处理，仅有一个元素的字符串了。

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Yeah, I've still got a binding for z and I'm giving it the same test, but notice now I've got the two same commands but they have different indentation.

对，我还是对z进行了绑定,我还是要对它进行同样的测试，但是请注意现在我有了两个同样的命令,但是它们有不同的缩进。

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