Cameron Simpson wrote: > I have spent too much time reading files indented > with TABs by people using a different tabwidth to my own, and thus looking > aweful on my screen. The original author didn't choose to make it awful, > but their tabs rendered in my tab scheme look awful. And doubtless vice > versa. The root cause of this is that when we, as humans, indent with > tabs, we do it to achieve a certain visual effect; as though a certain > number of spaces were in play.
How is this different from people who achieve a certain visual effect by indenting with actual spaces? I've seen people indent with 8 spaces. I've seen people indent with 2 spaces. I've even seen people indent with a single space per level. I haven't seen anyone indent with 17 spaces, but I suppose it's only a matter of time... I don't see how reading code indented with tabs configured for 8/4/2/1 spaces is *worse* than reading tab indented with 8/4/2/1 spaces. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
