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[FG via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 2015-03-07 at 07:51, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> Many C++ > projects are returning to it, Go enforces it if you let it,
> many Python projects are starting to use it in spite of PEP-8.

Now, that you mentioned Python, it was one of the main reasons why I moved away from tabs. I was used to tab-completion in the shell and Python's interactive interpreter (and didn't want to rebind that feature to some key combination on every system that I worked with). Whenever I copied chunks of tab-indented source code into the interpreter, it got screwed up, because the indentations had vanished, so eventually I switched to using spaces only and had no problems ever since.

>> I can also say from experience that removing tabs from Phobos source has removed
>> a lot of irritation with messed up code rendering and wasted effort arguing
>> about it. We're not going back :-)
>
> And I am not going to work on Phobos for exactly the same reasons. My
> loss, not yours.

You must be joking. :)

If at all, the problem with Phobos' style isn't with horizontal spacing but vertical space.
Consider the waste of space below. Too much scrolling and I lose focus. Now, *that* is really irritating. ;)


     struct Boo
     {
         int a;
     }

     struct Foo
     {
         int a;
         auto opAssign(Foo foo)
         {
             assert(0);
         }
         auto opEquals(Foo foo)
         {
             return a == foo.a;
         }
     }

     X calculate(Range)(Range r)
     {
         static if (something)
         {
             import whatever;

             auto result = xxx();

             size_t i;
             foreach (e; r)
             {
                 doSomething(result[i], e);
                 ++i;
             }
             return result;
         }
         else
         {
             auto a = blah();
             foreach (e; r)
             {
                 a.put(e);
             }
             return a.data;
         }
     }