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[Seebs]

On 2010-11-07, Steven D'Aprano <steve at REMOVE-THIS-cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> 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:

>>> 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?

In context, I think the comment was sarcastic, referring to C's famous
ambiguities caused by optional braces.

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