On Fri, 2015-03-06 at 18:21 -0800, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On 3/6/2015 2:31 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > > Remember a tab is not a number of spaces, it is semantic markup. > > All I can say is good luck with that. ASCII is not a markup language, and > trying > to reinvent it as one is doomed to failure.
I try to use Unicode (UTF-8 encoded) languages, restricting to ASCII is very 1970s. The use of tab as the indent character is far from failing. Many C++ projects are returning to it, Go enforces it if you let it, many Python projects are starting to use it in spite of PEP-8. OK so Go enforced format does alignment as well on the assumption of monospace font. I dislike that so just carry on with proportional fonts. ASCII per se is not a markup language, and it retains all the quirks of teletypes, but that should not stop progress. Unicode replacing ASCII is one step forward. Rethinking old established rules is always worthwhile: just because a thing has always been done some way does not make it the right way, nor should it hinder change. > > I can also say from experience that removing tabs from Phobos source has > removed > a lot of irritation with messed up code rendering and wasted effort arguing > about it. We're not going back :-) And I am not going to work on Phobos for exactly the same reasons. My loss, not yours. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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