Re: tabs in source code

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From: peter (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: tabs in source code
Date: 22:54 on 23 Jun 2006

> 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,

The majority of tools are misconfigured?

Oh, right, they're software, and therefore hateful.

> 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.

There's stuff above here

Martin Ebourne 22:31 on 19 Jun 2006
- A. Pagaltzis 22:51 on 19 Jun 2006
- peter (Peter da Silva) 22:54 on 23 Jun 2006
  - Martin Ebourne 22:59 on 23 Jun 2006
    - too deep to show
  - David Cantrell 12:29 on 27 Jun 2006
jrodman 03:30 on 20 Jun 2006
- A. Pagaltzis 04:19 on 20 Jun 2006

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