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Steven D'Aprano steve at REMOVE-THIS-cybersource.com.au
Fri Nov 5 22:01:17 EDT 2010


On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 17:45:58 +0000, Tim Harig wrote:

>>> Python is the only language that I know that *needs* to specify tabs
>>> versus spaces since it is the only language I know of which uses
>>> whitespace formating as part of its syntax and structure.
[...]
> I am also aware of other langauges such as Boo; but, I don't really
> consider them individually relevant to the conversation as they are
> explicitly using a Python based syntax.  For this discussion I merely
> group them with Python.

You might as well say that C is the only language that uses tags around 
blocks, since for this discussion "I merely group" Pascal, Algol, Java, 
etc with C.



-- 
Steven



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