[OT] Spaces/tabs (Was: simple display (from: GUI library for D))

["Jérôme M. Berger"]

spir wrote:
> On 04/12/2011 07:13 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> It's true that people occasionally end up inserting tabs in space-only
>> environments, but in my experience, it's fairly rare. It's pretty much a
>> guarantee, however, that _someone_ will insert spaces in an
>> environment where
>> it's supposed to be tabs.
> 
> How can you assert that? you stated yourself that in all your work
> environments the convention was spaces. So, logically, all mess up cases
> you have ever experienced are due to the standard beeing spaces.
> Your assertion about tab-as-standard causing more mess up is complete
> guessing.
> Please, be fair.
> 
	Well, I have worked in both environments, and I have seen a lot
more mess ups with tabs than with spaces... Other than that (and the
fact that almost *no* editors are able to do it properly), I would
really prefer "tabs for indent, spaces for align".

		Jerome
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