In message <slrnid9ln8.30fm.usenet-nos...@guild.seebs.net>, Seebs wrote:

> Specifically:
> 
> Four spaces followed by a tab nearly always actually means "eight spaces"
> to most editors (and Python seems to treat it that way), but it's hard to
> tell. Worse, a tab may have been intended to be the same thing as four
> spaces, and someone was expecting it NOT to be the same as eight spaces...

Whereas explicitly-bracketed languages leave no ambiguity about how many 
brackets you need and where.
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