Deprecate tabs for indenting (was Re: Indenting with tabs vs spaces)

[William Park]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 12:25:10PM +1300, Greg Ewing wrote:
> In summary, my positions on the various issues are:
> * Space-only block indentation should be allowed.
> * Tab-only block indentation should be allowed.
> * Mixed indentation should probably be rejected always,
>   or at least by default, although I can live with having 
>   to say -tt.
> * Python shouldn't care about spacing used for purposes
>   other than block indentation, although pragmatically
>   it's best done with spaces only.
> * People in both camps should get used to the idea of
>   using conversion tools to deal with each other's code
>   and stop hating each other, or George Bush may target
>   you next after Afghanistan. :-)

One solution that has been proposed long ago (and many time since) is
end-block keywords like shell.

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