Whitespace delimiters suck

[Gordon McMillan]

Roy Smith wrote:

> That's a far cry from confusion about how many spaces a tab is equal to leading 
> to syntacticaly correct but semanticaly incorrect programs.

There is no confusion. Python always treats a tab as 8, (or 
aligning to the next n*8th column). tabnanny will tell you if 
there's any other value of tab which would yield an 
inconsistent interpretation.
 
> Even SQL, which has to be the most wart-infested language syntax I've ever seen, 
> gets this right :-)

I've seen SQL implementations which give you a syntax error if 
the last statement in a chain ends with a ";". I don't believe the 
SQL grammar specifies whether this is correct or incorrect.


- Gordon