Waffling between Python and Ruby

Dieter Maurer dieter at handshake.de
Sat Jun 17 04:36:24 EDT 2000


mjackson at wc.eso.mc.xerox.com (Mark Jackson) writes on 14 Jun 2000 16:23:30 GMT:
> "Warren Postma" <embed at NOSPAM.geocities.com> writes:
> > Having something
> > look correct on the screen, but not work because of misuse of tabs versus
> > spaces, or incorrect indentation, is something that still continues to bug
> > me.
> Indulge my curiosity - how many times has this actually happened in
> your six months of using Python?
It happens regularly, when I (working under linux with default
tabwidth=8) and a collegue (working unter MacOS with default
tabwidth=4) exchange code.
Of cause, we could know ... but sometimes forget ...


Dieter



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