Python Rocks!

[Just van Rossum]

At 3:16 AM +0200 19-01-2000, Erno Kuusela wrote:
>>>>>> "Nick" == Nick Belshaw <nickb at earth.ox.ac.uk> writes:
>
>    Nick> ! - whats wrong with tabs?
>
>Nothing at all, since no sane editor would ever use a tab
>width other than 8, an no sane person would ever want anything
>else than 8-character indents.

Unix myth. Ancient historic nonsense. A religion nevertheless ;-)

Insane is:

     define indentation as a N spaces and then
     use a tabsetting of M spaces where N <> M

Tabs are meant to be flexible (hey, you *can* change the tab setting in
most sane editors, can't you? Should ring a bell.), so therefore mixing
tabs and spaces is asking for trouble.

To *many* people 8 spaces indentation is just too much. Look at the Python
library: 4 spaces all over! (But had they used tabs anyone would've been
able to decide for themselves...)

Sorry, nothing else to flame about right now.

Just