Fatal flaw in D design which is holding back widespread adoption

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
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> 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).

I was only talking about indent. The rest should just be spaces.