Guido sees the light: PEP 8 updated
Pete Forman
petef4+usenet at gmail.com
Tue Apr 19 03:34:27 EDT 2016
Rustom Mody <rustompmody at gmail.com> writes:
> On Tuesday, April 19, 2016 at 6:49:34 AM UTC+5:30, sohcatoa wrote:
>> On Monday, April 18, 2016 at 2:14:17 PM UTC-7, Pete Forman wrote:
>> > Why is it that Python continues to use a fixed width font and therefore
>> > specifies the maximum line width as a character count?
>> >
>> > An essential part of the language is indentation which ought to continue
>> > to mandate that lines start with a multiple of 4 em worth of space (or
>> > some other size or encode with hard tabs, that is not germane to my
>> > question). The content of the line need not be bound by the rules needed
>> > to position its start.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Pete Forman
>>
>> "Why is it that Python continues to use a fixed width font "
>>
>> This guy is trolling, right?
No, it is a genuine question. It applies to computer langauges in
general but this thread is about PEP 8 so I framed it for Python.
I was not proposing a change to the langauge.
> See elastic tabstops: http://nickgravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/
I like that Nick separates out the concept of alignment with implicit
semantics from the n spaces v tabs arguments. My question asks why
monospace is used for the text.
> And more generally that programmers sticking to text when rest of
> world has moved on is rather backward:
> http://blog.languager.org/2012/10/html-is-why-mess-in-programming-syntax.html
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Pete Forman
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