On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:54 AM, DevPlayer <devpla...@gmail.com> wrote: > To me, I would think the interpreter finding the coder's intended > indent wouldn't be that hard. And just make the need for consistant > spaces or tabs irrevelent simply by reformatting the indent as > expected. Pretty much all my text editors can.
The trouble with having a language declaration that "a tab is equivalent to X spaces" is that there's no consensus as to what X should be. Historically X has always been 8, and quite a few programs still assume this. I personally like 4. Some keep things narrow with 2. You can even go 1 - a strict substitution of \t with \x20. Once you declare it in your language, you immediately break everyone who uses anything different. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
