From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-31 10:04:26 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.stealth.net!news-east.rr.com!news-west.rr.com!lsnws01.we.mediaone.net!cyclone-LA3.rr.com!typhoon.san.rr.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B66E299.FA942B24@san.rr.com> From: Darren New Organization: Boxes! X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How to make Ada a dominant language References: <9k36ae$138k$1@pa.aaanet.ru> <3B654276.4040707@bigfoot.de> <3B655CE8.F8FAD2CF@sneakemail.com> <87elqxxyzb.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <3B66D9F8.BA21BC1B@san.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 16:53:43 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.165.21.192 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: typhoon.san.rr.com 996598423 24.165.21.192 (Tue, 31 Jul 2001 09:53:43 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 09:53:43 PDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10881 Date: 2001-07-31T16:53:43+00:00 List-Id: > > So how does it deal with the tab/space problem? Why's that a problem for > > Python and not for the Ada indentation-checking tools? > Tab characters are not valid source code characters if this compiler > option is activated. FWIW, Python's approach is to forbid mixing of tabs and spaces in the same indent block. I.e., you can use some number of tabs per indent, or some number of spaces per indent, but not both. ITabs vs spaces is actually a pretty rare complaint, judging from the python newsgroup. -- Darren New / Senior MTS & Free Radical / Invisible Worlds Inc. San Diego, CA, USA (PST). Cryptokeys on demand. dnew@san.rr.com Only a WIMP puts wallpaper on his desktop.