Deprecate tabs for indenting (was Re: Indenting with tabs vs spaces)

[Gerhard Häring]

Le 04/12/01 à 17:47, Cliff Wells écrivit:
> On Tuesday 04 December 2001 16:58, Tim Peters wrote:
> 
> > I've lost track, but I'm pretty sure it was either because the example
> > used tabs, or because it used spaces.
> 
> After reading this entire thread, I think there are valid arguments on 
> both sides, so I'll be avoiding both tabs and spaces in all my code.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!-- fancy doctype declaration here -->
<module name="mypkg.mymodule">
    <class name="MyClass" inherits="OtherClass">
        <method name="__init__">
        <method-params>
            <method-param name="self"/>
            <method-param name="foo" default="None"/>
        </method-params>
        <method-body>
        <global name="tabVsSpacesFlamewarHappening">
        <while-loop>
            <while-loop-condition>
                <value="1"/>
            </while-loop-condition>
            <while-loop-body>
                <pass/>
            </while-loop-body>
        </while-loop>
        </method-body>
    </class>
</python-module>

Better? Seperatation of representation and semantics? The obvious
disadvantage of an XML representation of sourc code would be that we
would need *really good* editors to make it not painful.

Gerhard
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