Chuck Esterbrook wrote:
On Jan 2, 2008 11:07 AM, David Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Please do not assume that tabs are 4 spaces. You will offend people by
doing that. If you want indentation to be hard tabs, please _enforce_
that, and disallow spaces. This is actually Guido's recommendation for
Python code. Most Unix-like editors are configured to display tabs as 8
spaces, and it is frustrating to keep changing that for different
languages.
It's quite clear that I will offend people no matter what I do...
And for that reason, you should do it the way that YOU prefer it. For
that reason, you should stick to your original plan of not allowing
spaces for indentation. Switching back to that stance may piss of more
people than you would have had you never allowed it, but the time to
cement anything in concrete is as close to the beginning as possible.
That time is ever slipping away. I don't know enough about it to
comment about much else, but you had made a comment that you would not
budge unless someone showed you good reason to allow spaces as indents.
I submit that unless someone can show you *good* reason to leave it the
way it is, you should go back to the way that you had so clearly wanted
it. But don't listen to me. I don't have any clout to throw around on
this. This is just my opinion. If I were writing a programming
language to take care of problems and frustrations I have with others, I
think I would want to stick to my guns and really do it the way I want
it "unless someone can show me good reason to change it". Take it for
whatever it's worth.
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Ralph
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