spir wrote:
> In addition to those main reasons, they have a few nice side-effects:
>
> * No indent width issue (!),
True
> * 1 tab <--> 1 indent level conceptually,
True
> * deletion is 1 key press, even with stupid editors.
False, not with some *really* stupid editors I have seen (!)
>
> A drawback is one cannot directly have different indent levels, for
> instance to indent collection contents more, or less, than blocks of
> code. This can also be considered an advantage; and is simply solved by
> using... spaces ;-)
>
> void f () {
> -> while (true) {
> -> -> table = [
> -> -> .."aaa" : 1,
> -> -> .."bbb" : 2,
> -> -> .."ccc" : 3,
> -> -> ];
> -> -> auto a = this(table);
> -> -> if (! a) break;
> -> }
> }
>
> (yes, the example is stupid)
>
Unfortunately, most editors are completely unable to handle this
example properly: sure they will *display* it fine, but they will
not allow you to *enter* it right (especially if you need more
spaces for alignment than the tab size).
Jerome
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