Fatal flaw in D design which is holding back widespread adoption

[Walter Bright]

Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:56:32 -0400, Walter Bright 
> <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
> 
>> BTW, type a file to a console window. Tabs come out as 8 characters, 
>> on Windows, Linux, and OSX.
> 
> So do 8 spaces.  This is the surest way to make code easily 
> viewable/editable anywhere.  Just set the "expand tabs" option on your 
> favorite editor.
> 
> My recommendation is to say indentations are 4 spaces and tabs should 
> not be used for indentation.

Sure, that's a good plan. My only objection was with the notion that 8 character 
tabs only appear in printers. He's right in that I never print source code 
anymore, haven't in decades, but I do type to the screen all the time.