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From: Florian Weimer <Florian.Weimer@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>
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Subject: Re: How to make Ada a dominant language
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Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com> writes:

> > That's why at least one Ada compiler optionally checks indentation and
> > refuses to compile code with confusing and inconsistent indentation.
> 
> 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.