yet another indentation proposal
James Stroud
jstroud at mbi.ucla.edu
Mon Aug 20 00:51:06 EDT 2007
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 13:22:54 -0500, "Aaron"
> <cajnnjonaj at fjireanjtjprodjuctijons.com> declaimed the following in
> comp.lang.python:
>
>
>> column to make sure that everything lines up. I, on the other hand,
>> generally find my self counting a lot of spaces.
>>
> Forgive me, but that sounds like a valid excuse for me to suggest
> near heresy... and that TABS should be the standard indent mechanism,
> not spaces...
>
> I'd much rather hear: tab tab tab print
> than: space space space space space space space space space space space
> space space space space space space space space space space space space
> space print
> (that many as the Python definition of a tab is eight spaces)
What's wrong with just saying the current indent level? I'd much rather
hear "indent 4" than "tab tab tab tab".
James
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