Non-Indented python

Keith Ray k1e2i3t4h5r6a7y at 1m2a3c4.5c6o7m
Wed Nov 21 19:05:24 EST 2001


In article <mailman.1006384828.32275.python-list at python.org>,
 "Delaney, Timothy" <tdelaney at avaya.com> wrote:
[...]
> The problem is simply that people use the tab key and character to mean
> different things. Originally the tab key was designed to do the same thing
> as on a typewriter - advance to the next tab stop (i.e. a certain number of
> spaces). Thus you end up with editors which distinguish between indentation
> and tab because a tab is too big for indentation.
[...]

Typewriters had *moveable* tab stops, so they *were* used for indenting 
as well as "tab"les...



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