Tabs -vs- Spaces: Tabs should have won.

[Ian Kelly]

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 10:29 AM, rantingrick <rantingrick at gmail.com> wrote:
> I hate  vertical white-space. I follow Python style guide suggestions,
> and then some! I hate when people insert spaces into code blocks and
> function/method bodies. If you feel a space must be inserted then that
> is a good clue you should be using a comment there instead. Vertical
> breaks should only happen before and after classes, methods,
> functions, groups of GLOBALS, groups of import statements. Think of
> func/method bodies as paragraphs and classes as sections of a book.
> Two vertical spaces between classes and one vertical space between
> func/methods.

You know, there is such a thing as a vertical tab.  If we're going to
take your suggestion of mandating tabs (for greater freedom!), should
we not follow it to its logical conclusion and mandate the usage of
vertical tabs instead of multiple newlines?  Then everybody could
choose for themselves how many lines they want a vertical tab to
represent

> It should be MANDATED. And these @holes who refuse to format their
> code in a community standard will suffer the plague of syntax errors.
> Who do these people think they are? Do they believe the rules do not
> apply to them? I'll tell you who they are, they are F'ING format
> criminals.

I think I get it now.  Your idea of "freedom" is that anybody can do
whatever they want as long as it's not illegal, and the ruling party
just makes anything it doesn't like illegal.  In other words, a
monarchy.