indent style for D

[H. S. Teoh]

On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 05:33:39PM +0000, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 09:17 -0500, bearophile wrote:
[...]
> > D2 style guide should *require* D2 to be edited using a mono-spaced
> > font, and the D2 front-end should enforce this with a "-ms" compiler
> > switch.
> 
> Surely this is a level of fascism too far (*).  Using monospace fonts is
> just so 1960s, the era of typewriters and 80x25 terminals.

I always code with tab stops set to 8 and line wrapping set to 80
columns.


> Personally I am living in an era where monitors deal with proportional
> fonts which every experiment done shows are easier to read.

*Text* is easier to read with proportional fonts. Code is not the same
as text.


> Why do so many programmers hanker for the 1960s and the necessity of
> monospace fonts, it seems irrational.

I am irrational.

;-)


T

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