DCode 1.3 release

[James Dunne]

Hasan Aljudy wrote:
> James Dunne wrote:
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>> Hasan Aljudy wrote:
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>>> James Dunne wrote:
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>>>> Hasan Aljudy wrote:
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>>>>> James Dunne wrote:
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>>>>>> Anders F Björklund wrote:
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>>>>>>> jicman wrote:
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>>>>>>>> Ok, I give you that one... :-)
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>>>>>>> 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...)
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>>>>>>> The only language I know getting serious hiccups from tabs is 
>>>>>>> Python.
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>>>>>>> --anders
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>>>>>> That's because someone had a brain-aneurism thought about using 
>>>>>> whitespace indentation for scope control.
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>>>>> 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!
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>>>> 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. 
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>>> even the most lame text editors I've seen support ctrl-arrow to jump 
>>> to next word!!
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>> Yes, any decent editor will do that.  Tabs are more storage efficient.
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>>>> Plus it's such a hassle to reindent code with spaces when you're OCD 
>>>> about indentation and code readability...
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>>> I lost you on OCD .. :)
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>> Short for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. :)
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> Oh yeah, I have that. Just not with tabs :(

Yeah, I have a big case of it... A co-worker moved an icon on my desktop 
just to invoke my knee-jerk response of moving it back while trying to 
collaborate on some work. =P  It really bugged me and I can't explain 
why; needless to say it was quite a laugh...for him

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Regards,
James Dunne