Fatal flaw in D design which is holding back widespread adoption

[Walter Bright]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> There's absolutely no need whatsoever for any kind of magical "figure out 
> the tab-size for a file". Everyone can have everything the way *they* want 
> it without screwing up anything for anyone else all by the convention of 
> treating tab as *the* "indent" symbol. (Note that this *is* very different 
> from the "everyone will get along if they just think like I do" argument 
> pattern.)

That would work for indent, but nothing else (such as tabbing over to the 
comment column).