The D Style and tab sizes

[Regan Heath]

On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 23:31:35 +0100, Steve Horne  
<stephenwantshornenospam100 at aol.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:08:21 +1200, "Regan Heath" <regan at netwin.co.nz>
> wrote:
>
>> It's not evil, it's miss-understood. If you use it for it's original
>> purpose
>
> It wasn't meant totally seriously.

Neither was I :) Specifically the phrase "It's not evil, it's  
miss-understood" ;)

> Mind you, the real original purpose of the tab was data compression.
> On teletypes, sending long sequences of spaces was inefficient. At 300
> baud it was a big deal.

Interesting.

> I find my text documents more readable in their decompressed form ;-)

As do we all.. :)

Regan