DCode 1.3 release

Hasan Aljudy hasan.aljudy at gmail.com
Sat May 13 02:24:13 PDT 2006


James Dunne wrote:
> Hasan Aljudy wrote:
> 
>> James Dunne wrote:
>>
>>> Anders F Björklund wrote:
>>>
>>>> jicman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Ok, I give you that one... :-)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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!
> 
> 
> 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. 

even the most lame text editors I've seen support ctrl-arrow to jump to 
next word!!


> 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 .. :)



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