Larry Wall's comment on python...

[Greg Ewing]

Alex Martelli wrote:
 >

> Greg Ewing wrote

>
>>Using *tabs* only is the only way to get truly
>>preference-independent indentation.
>
> ...unless other people use tools that do NOT let them change the
> ways tabs are displayed, and that way is intolerably incompatible
> with your use of tabs.


I agree there are good reasons to prefer spaces-only
for code that will be transmitted or displayed by
dumb software.

I was only pointing out that, whatever arguments there
may be in favour of spaces-only, "it doesn't force the
reader to view it the way you do" is not one of them!

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg