> I don't think rejecting tabs is a good idea, as there should really > be no problem if people use spaces or tabs or both as long as they're > used 'correctly'. The only time a problem comes up is when editors are > set to have tab stops set to odd things.
But people do do that, all the time. There are a lot of problems that are theoretically non-problems if everyone would just configure the same, but people don't do that. Since you mentioned python, python standards reject mixed tabs and spaces. There's even a compiler flag to make them into errors. I have ts=8 in vim but get annoyed at them anyway because they make cursor movement unpredictable. When there are no benefits (I can't think of any at least...) to mixing tabs with spaces, and when it's so easy to configure editors to insert spaces, why do it? _______________________________________________ fltk-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk-dev
