Re: tabs in source code

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On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 16:54 -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
>
> > Tabs/spaces whatever. There's not a single tool that will misformat code
> > only using spaces, whereas the majority of tools will need to be set up
> > to show tabs correctly,

Back to the email hate. People who loose attributions completely. I
reckon however some of these might be my words.

> The majority of tools are misconfigured?
> 
> Oh, right, they're software, and therefore hateful.

Naturally.

> > Spaces it is, for portability sakes. Unless you're not being portable of
> > course in which case be happy, you've got life easy.
> 
> If your code is made non-portable if spaces and tabs don't behave the
> way you expect, then the language itself is hateful. Yes, Python, Make,
> I'm talking about you.

I didn't mean portable in the sense of whether it executes or not. I
meant portable in the case of being able to usefully maintain it on a
variety of different platforms/setups.

And to the hateful indentation list you could add a few more, OCCAM
springs to mind.

Cheers,

Martin.

• peter (Peter da Silva) 22:54 on 23 Jun 2006
  • Martin Ebourne 22:59 on 23 Jun 2006
    • Bruce Richardson 23:27 on 23 Jun 2006
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    • peter (Peter da Silva) 14:04 on 24 Jun 2006
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