Indent testers needed (Prothon)

Peter Hansen peter at engcorp.com
Sat Apr 3 07:47:10 EST 2004


Mark Hahn wrote:

> "Peter Hansen" <peter at engcorp.com> wrote ...
> 
>>I heard a rumour Python is heading for "no tabs", period. Why not just
>>simplify everyone's life and do the same for Prothon, and leave the
>>whole darned issue in the past.
> 
> I first said tabs-only since I'm a tabs lover and the tabs-haters came out
> and crucified me. Because of that and the fact that I found out that Guido
> wants to pull tabs from Python, I said we were going to spaces-only and then
> the space-haters did the same. I don't think Guido has a chance in hell of
> ever pulling tab support from Python.

I knew I shouldn't have gone there... it led you to ignore my real
point.

Which was don't you think that this is going to make cut-and-paste
a really significantly dangerous/difficult thing compared to even
Python's current (accept either) approach?

-Peter



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