Spaces and tabs again

[John Machin]

Dan Sommers wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 01:04:04 GMT,
> Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>On 13 Aug 2005 13:18:21 -0700, sigzero at gmail.com declaimed the following
>>in comp.lang.python:
> 
> 
>>>Are you kidding? You are going to MANDATE spaces?
>>>
>>
>>	After the backlash, Python 4.0 will ban leading spaces and require
>>tabs <G>
> 
> 
> Why not petition the unicode people to include PYTHON INDENT and PYTHON
> DEDENT code points, and leave the display up to the text editors?  ;-)
> 

Good idea, Dan. And when you don't want the indented/dedented display, 
but a repr-like "what's actually there", they could be rendered as 
little icons of a snake and a ladder respectively.

[It's a joke, Joyce.]