On 2010-11-07, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote: > In message <slrnid9ln8.30fm.usenet-nos...@guild.seebs.net>, Seebs wrote: >> 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. Well, the good ones don't. :P (I think the optional nature of brackets is probably a flaw in C. It would break too much existing code to fix it, sadly.) -s -- Copyright 2010, all wrongs reversed. Peter Seebach / usenet-nos...@seebs.net http://www.seebs.net/log/ <-- lawsuits, religion, and funny pictures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_(Scientology) <-- get educated! I am not speaking for my employer, although they do rent some of my opinions. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
