DCode 1.3 release

Derek Parnell derek at psych.ward
Thu May 11 18:03:34 PDT 2006


On Thu, 11 May 2006 19:55:52 -0500, James Dunne wrote:

> Anders F Björklund wrote:
>> jicman wrote:
>> 
>>> Ok, I give you that one... :-)
>> 
>> Seriously, tabs are not *that* bad if everyone could just settle on a 
>> spacing for them (that isn't 8). Kinda like 8-bit character encodings, 
>> it works OK as long as everyone is "on the same page". (If only...)
>> 
>> The only language I know getting serious hiccups from tabs is Python.
>> 
>> --anders
> 
> That's because someone had a brain-aneurism thought about using 
> whitespace indentation for scope control.

And don't forget RPGII. In that language, certain columns could only
contain certain information

-- 
Derek
(skype: derek.j.parnell)
Melbourne, Australia
"Down with mediocracy!"
12/05/2006 11:02:49 AM



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