On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Tony Arcieri <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Daniel Micay <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> The problem being that only the braces matter, not the indentation. >> Perhaps a missing brace is easier to see than a missing 8 space indent >> or tab for some people, but not for me. > > > And what do you do if you're editing another YAML file that someone started > with 2-space tabs? Do you convert everything to 8? Use 8-space tabs just for > your stuff and leave the rest of the file with 2-space tabs?
About as useful as saying non-YAML formats are less common, so all hope is lost because you don't like YAML. > I would venture to guess that 8-space YAML files are exceedingly uncommon. > > I'd also say 8-space tabs are ugly. I'd say that they're far nicer than braces and encourage splitting up the code/data sanely. Lots of nesting is hard to deal with, and 8-space indents discourage it. _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
