Martin v. Löwis wrote: > There are other, more serious cases of presentation ambiguity > (e.g. tabs vs. spaces), yet nobody suggests to ban tabs from the > language for that reason.
But we *have* suggested banning mixed tabs and spaces (rather than just recommending against it), which is something that can be automatically verified. I don't think this scenario is all that unlikely. A program is initially written by a Russian programmer who uses his own version of "a" as a variable name. Later an English-speaking programmer makes some changes, and uses an ascii "a". Now there are two subtly different variables called "a" in different parts of the program. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
