DCode 1.3 release

Hasan Aljudy hasan.aljudy at gmail.com
Sat May 13 19:29:04 PDT 2006


James Dunne wrote:
> Hasan Aljudy wrote:
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>> James Dunne wrote:
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>>> Hasan Aljudy wrote:
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>>>> James Dunne wrote:
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>>>>> Anders F Björklund wrote:
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>>>>>> jicman wrote:
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>>>>>>> Ok, I give you that one... :-)
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>>>>>> 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
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>>>>> That's because someone had a brain-aneurism thought about using 
>>>>> whitespace indentation for scope control.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> heheh, we've already gone over this once, but it was the other way 
>>>> around. We were talking about python, then we started talkig about 
>>>> how evil the tab character is!
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>>> But... I love tabs!  They're great for indentation, but they should 
>>> not be combined with spaces.  I *hate* arrowing through a bunch of 
>>> spaces to get to the start of a statement - tabs go much quicker. 
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>> even the most lame text editors I've seen support ctrl-arrow to jump 
>> to next word!!
>>
> 
> Yes, any decent editor will do that.  Tabs are more storage efficient.
> 
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>>> Plus it's such a hassle to reindent code with spaces when you're OCD 
>>> about indentation and code readability...
>>>
>>
>> I lost you on OCD .. :)
> 
> 
> Short for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. :)
> 

Oh yeah, I have that. Just not with tabs :(



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