yet another indentation proposal

James Stroud jstroud at mbi.ucla.edu
Mon Aug 20 00:51:06 EDT 2007


Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 13:22:54 -0500, "Aaron"
> <cajnnjonaj at fjireanjtjprodjuctijons.com> declaimed the following in
> comp.lang.python:
> 
>  
>> column to make sure that everything lines up.  I, on the other hand, 
>> generally find my self counting a lot of spaces.
>>
> 	Forgive me, but that sounds like a valid excuse for me to suggest
> near heresy... and that TABS should be the standard indent mechanism,
> not spaces...
> 
> 	I'd much rather hear: tab tab tab print
> than: space space space space space space space space space space space
> space space space space space space space space space space space space
> space print
> (that many as the Python definition of a tab is eight spaces)

What's wrong with just saying the current indent level? I'd much rather 
hear "indent 4" than "tab tab tab tab".

James



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