Who are the "spacists"?

D'Arcy Cain darcy at VybeNetworks.com
Sat Mar 18 12:07:56 EDT 2017


On 2017-03-18 11:18 AM, Mikhail V wrote:
> On 18 March 2017 at 05:02, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
>> Feel free to start your own discussion forum for your new programming
>> language that forbids spaces for indentation. That language will never
>> be Python, so please don't ask us to discuss it here.
>
> Slight note of aggression in you words makes me think you
> are a ... spacist?

As are just about everyone on this list except you.

> So you are the opinion it would be more productive to
> invent a new language instead of just cleaning up spaces?

No, he thinks it would be more productive for us if you went away and 
invented your own language.

> Interesting idea indeed, but that is ok.
> I think it still helps to realize that in the future this will
> become more noticable problem than it seems now, so
> at least making up a strategy for converting to tabs
> could be way more productive on a long term basis,
> than replacing tabs and spaces back and forth, like pouring
> water from one glass to another.

At one point I couldn't decide if you were just a troll or not.  Thanks 
for clearing it up.

*plonk*

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