why indentation should be part of the syntax

From	Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de>
Subject	why indentation should be part of the syntax
Date	2014-03-02 11:41 +0100
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Message-ID	<mailman.7568.1393756930.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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Haven't seen any mention of it on this list yet, but since it's such an
obvious flaw in quite a number of programming languages, here's a good
article on the recent security bug in iOS, which was due to accidentally
duplicated code not actually being as indented as it looked:

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/02/22/applebug.html

Stefan

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why indentation should be part of the syntax Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2014-03-02 11:41 +0100
  Re: why indentation should be part of the syntax Bernd Nawothnig <Bernd.Nawothnig@t-online.de> - 2014-03-02 13:07 +0100
  Re: why indentation should be part of the syntax Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-03-02 09:38 -0500
    Re: why indentation should be part of the syntax Nicholas Cole <nicholas.cole@gmail.com> - 2014-03-02 19:08 +0000
  Re: why indentation should be part of the syntax "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-03-03 21:43 +0000

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