[Python-Dev] RE: Python-checkins digest, Vol 1 #615 - 2 msgs

Fredrik Lundh Fredrik Lundh" <effbot@telia.com
Sat, 8 Jul 2000 15:46:05 +0200


fred wrote:
=20
> Tim Peters writes:
>  > Fred, you appear to be 4-space indenting C source.  Is that =
allowed?  Last I
>  > think I heard, Guido was still clinging to his schizophrenia on =
this topic
>  > (4-space for .py and no hard tabs, 8-space for .c/.h and hard =
tabs).
>=20
>   I seem to recall that Guido had caved on this, mostly because he
> received enough complaints about too much code getting shoved way over
> to the right, in a column a dozen of fewer characters wide (which is
> seriously hard to decode).  I don't remember if this was on the list
> or in a meeting.
>   If I'm mis-remembering, then we should presure him on this until he
> does cave.  ;)

guido?  I think we need an official BDFL statement here...

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