Spaces and tabs again

[Paul Watson]

Dan Sommers wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 01:04:04 GMT,
> Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>On 13 Aug 2005 13:18:21 -0700, sigzero at gmail.com declaimed the following
>>in comp.lang.python:
> 
> 
>>>Are you kidding? You are going to MANDATE spaces?
>>>
>>
>>	After the backlash, Python 4.0 will ban leading spaces and require
>>tabs <G>
> 
> 
> Why not petition the unicode people to include PYTHON INDENT and PYTHON
> DEDENT code points, and leave the display up to the text editors?  ;-)
> 
> Regards,
> Dan

The Unicode people will correctly point out that there is already a 
Unicode codepoint assignment which can be used for this purpose.  It is 
even in the BMP portion of the C0 controls group.

     0009 = HORIZONTAL TABULATION