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Re: indenting

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Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

> Well, there is one argument against tabs. ASCII HT is 8 spaces wide, which
> far too much. This tempts people to change the tab width in the IDE from
> the ASCII standard to 2, 3, 4, whatever, keeping HT in the source. This
> opens gates of hell.

No, that's just Hell's catflap.

Where it goes tits-up is when people mix tabbed and spaced indentation -- then 
that hits absolute bottom when people used spaced indentation to match, say, 
what they see as 4-space tabs, and someone else uses spaced indentation to 
match what /they/ see as 2-spaced tabs.

My advice to the OP.  Use spaces or tabls exclusively: never mix.  If someone 
else mixes, then shoot them.  Do not attempt to warn them first, just blaze 
away...

    -- chris 

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indenting bob <bob@coolfone.comze.com> - 2012-12-14 13:47 -0800
  Re: indenting Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-12-15 15:40 +1300
    Re: indenting "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2012-12-15 09:10 +0100
      Re: indenting Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2012-12-15 04:10 -0600
      Re: indenting "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2012-12-15 11:17 +0000
      Re: indenting Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-12-15 12:16 +0000
        Re: indenting "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2012-12-15 12:29 +0000
          Re: indenting Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-12-16 08:29 +1300
  Re: indenting rossum <rossum48@coldmail.com> - 2012-12-15 13:23 +0000
  Re: indenting treetaxi <noreply@treetaxi.invalid> - 2012-12-15 19:28 -0700
    Re: indenting Thomas Mlynarczyk <thomas@mlynarczyk-webdesign.de> - 2012-12-16 20:54 +0100

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