On Tuesday, April 19, 2016 at 6:49:34 AM UTC+5:30, sohcatoa wrote: > On Monday, April 18, 2016 at 2:14:17 PM UTC-7, Pete Forman wrote: > > Why is it that Python continues to use a fixed width font and therefore > > specifies the maximum line width as a character count? > > > > An essential part of the language is indentation which ought to continue > > to mandate that lines start with a multiple of 4 em worth of space (or > > some other size or encode with hard tabs, that is not germane to my > > question). The content of the line need not be bound by the rules needed > > to position its start. > > > > -- > > Pete Forman > > "Why is it that Python continues to use a fixed width font " > > This guy is trolling, right?
See elastic tabstops: http://nickgravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/ And more generally that programmers sticking to text when rest of world has moved on is rather backward: http://blog.languager.org/2012/10/html-is-why-mess-in-programming-syntax.html -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
