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> Absolutely no counting is required at all so I think your joke falls a little flat. Really? How do you see the difference between "TAB" and "SPACE SPACE TAB"
by thaumasiotes 1y ago
> Absolutely no counting is required at all so I think your joke falls a little flat.
Really? How do you see the difference between "TAB" and "SPACE SPACE TAB"?
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- xigoi 1y agoThe solution to that is easy: do not use tabs.
- thaumasiotes 1y agoThat is not the approach taken by any system that I know of that uses semantic whitespace. Tabs are meaningful in Python and make, and in fact required in make.
- xigoi 1y agoHaskell and Nim are both indentation-sensitive languages that only allow spaces as indentation.
- derriz 1y agoThat’s a design flaw of ASCII inherited by UNICODE not an argument against using indentation to portray hierarchy. I’m sure there are alternative UNICODE characters which render almost indistinguishable from “(“ also.