[thaumasiotes]

> Absolutely no counting is required at all so I think your joke falls a little flat.

Really? How do you see the difference between "TAB" and "SPACE SPACE TAB"?

[xigoi]

The solution to that is easy: do not use tabs.

[thaumasiotes]

That is not the approach taken by any system that I know of that uses semantic whitespace. Tabs are meaningful in Python and make, and in fact required in make.

[xigoi]

Haskell and Nim are both indentation-sensitive languages that only allow spaces as indentation.

[derriz]

That’s a design flaw of ASCII inherited by UNICODE not an argument against using indentation to portray hierarchy. I’m sure there are alternative UNICODE characters which render almost indistinguishable from “(“ also.