Rob Managan wrote: > Because in a mixed environment some one will take a file that has > >tabs and add spaces or vice versa. As soon as lines have a mixture of >tabs and spaces then the display does ugly things when you change >editors. > >I run into this all the time in C with those I develop with. We try >to keep it to spaces but some people forget that their editor puts in >a tab automatically for 8 spaces and then spaces after that to column >12 for example. Then my editor which sets tabs to 4 spaces has >indentation all messed up. > >
But in C it doesn't matter for the code to compile and run. C has block delimiters. Python does not and there's the rub. I guess this is an old topic. Frankly, I like Python's approach much better, but it is like, the good news is there are no block delimiters, the bad news is there are no block delimiters. I can live with that because the good news is better than the bad news is worse (does that make sense? :-) ). My original question was just a version of, could Guido (blessed be the prophet's name) have done it better? That's all. I didn't want a flame war or the Spanish Inquisition. Thanks. -- Cheers, Lou Pecora Code 6362 Naval Research Lab Washington, DC 20375 USA Ph: +202-767-6002 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
