Prothon Prototypes vs Python Classes

[John Roth]

"Mark Hahn" <mark at prothon.org> wrote in message
news:9C8ac.68303$cx5.4075 at fed1read04...
> > but you could allow either all-tabs or all-spaces in a given file.
>
> Maybe that the is most sensible solution I've heard yet.

That mostly works. In fact, the original suggestion to use
tabs followed by spaces *only* for alignining continuations
also works: the most toxic case is the one where someone
has their indentation set to 4, and the editor blithely compresses
runs of 8 spaces to one tab. Then it goes to someone
else whose editor is set up for four character tabs, and
the indentation gets messed up.

John Roth

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on these postings. Please don't - the address that's availible
on Usenet is virus checked, spam checked and then deleted
without being read.

JR.


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> "Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)" <ieyf4fu02 at sneakemail.com> wrote in
> message news:4068D66A.7060800 at sneakemail.com...
> > Mark Hahn wrote:
> >  > Prothon has announced that we are caving in and going to spaces
instead
> of
> >  > tabs, even though both of the Prothon authors abhor spaces.
> >
> > You don't have to choose between them if you don't
> > want to. Disallowing *mixed* tabs and spaces is sensible,
> > but you could allow either all-tabs or all-spaces in a
> > given file.
> >
> > -- 
> > Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
> > University of Canterbury,
> > Christchurch, New Zealand
> > http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg
> >
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