Larry Wall's comment on python...

[Greg Ewing]

sismex01 at hebmex.com wrote:

>>Alan Daniels wrote:
>>
>>>Sometimes I wonder if Guido would have saved a lot of debate 
>>>by declaring, long ago, that Python code would never allow
>>>tabs in it, period. Which may be a bit extreme, I'll admit. :-)
> 
> Actually, it's the only universally-workable solution
> to this "problem".


This is not a workable solution, because there are
some environments in which tabs-only is the only
sane thing to use, e.g. BBEdit and many other code
editors on Mac.

Mandating either tabs-only or spaces-only would be
fine, though.

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg