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[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sun, 07 Nov 2010 14:53:45 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> In message <slrnid9ln8.30fm.usenet-nospam at guild.seebs.net>, Seebs wrote:
> 
>> Specifically:
>> 
>> 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.

Yes, and?

The way people[1] go on, and on, and ON about braces and indentation, 
anyone would think that the hardest part of programming was deciding how 
many times to press the tab key.

Besides, if we used reverse Polish notation, we wouldn't need either 
brackets or indentation.


Forth rules-ly y'rs, 

-- 
Steven

[1] I include myself.