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Re: how to reduce bugs due to incorrect indentation

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On 02/06/2014 12:36 PM, Larry Martell wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 3:29 PM, Roel Schroeven wrote:
>> msustik@gmail.com schreef:
>>>
>>> While editing this file I accidentally pushed TAB on the line with 'y = z
>>> + y'.
>>
>> My suggestion: configure your editor to insert the appropriate amount of
>> spaces instead of a tab when you press the tab key.
>
> +1 - tabs are evil.

Tabs are not evil, and an argument can be made that tabs are better (a decent editor can be configured to show x many 
spaces per tab, then users could decide how much indentation they preferred to see... but I digress).

Using spaces instead of tabs would also have not prevented the error that Msustik encountered, and for that matter we 
don't know whether he was using tabs or spaces in his source file, only that he hit the Tab key -- surely you are not 
suggesting everyone rip out their tab key and just hit the space bar four times for each level of indentation?  ;)

--
~Ethan~

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how to reduce bugs due to incorrect indentation msustik@gmail.com - 2014-02-05 19:02 -0800
  Re: how to reduce bugs due to incorrect indentation Dan Sommers <dan@tombstonezero.net> - 2014-02-06 03:08 +0000
    Re: how to reduce bugs due to incorrect indentation Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-06 15:47 +1100
  Re: how to reduce bugs due to incorrect indentation Asaf Las <roegltd@gmail.com> - 2014-02-05 21:23 -0800
  Re: how to reduce bugs due to incorrect indentation Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-02-06 03:09 -0500
  Re: how to reduce bugs due to incorrect indentation Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-02-06 14:49 +0000
    Re: how to reduce bugs due to incorrect indentation msustik@gmail.com - 2014-02-06 10:51 -0800
  Re: how to reduce bugs due to incorrect indentation Roel Schroeven <roel@roelschroeven.net> - 2014-02-06 21:29 +0100
    Re: how to reduce bugs due to incorrect indentation msustik@gmail.com - 2014-02-06 17:20 -0800
      Re: how to reduce bugs due to incorrect indentation Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-07 12:57 +1100
      Re: how to reduce bugs due to incorrect indentation Roel Schroeven <roel@roelschroeven.net> - 2014-02-07 23:08 +0100
      Re: how to reduce bugs due to incorrect indentation Jurko Gospodnetić <jurko.gospodnetic@pke.hr> - 2014-02-08 12:11 +0100
  Re: how to reduce bugs due to incorrect indentation Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-02-06 15:36 -0500
  Re: how to reduce bugs due to incorrect indentation Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-02-06 13:32 -0800
  Re: how to reduce bugs due to incorrect indentation Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-02-06 17:09 -0500
  Re: how to reduce bugs due to incorrect indentation Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-07 09:30 +1100
    Re: how to reduce bugs due to incorrect indentation Asaf Las <roegltd@gmail.com> - 2014-02-06 15:01 -0800
      Re: how to reduce bugs due to incorrect indentation Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-07 11:08 +1100
  Re: how to reduce bugs due to incorrect indentation Roel Schroeven <roel@roelschroeven.net> - 2014-02-07 23:06 +0100

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