Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> writes: > 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?
No, it is a genuine question. It applies to computer langauges in general but this thread is about PEP 8 so I framed it for Python. I was not proposing a change to the langauge. > See elastic tabstops: http://nickgravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/ I like that Nick separates out the concept of alignment with implicit semantics from the n spaces v tabs arguments. My question asks why monospace is used for the text. > 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 -- Pete Forman -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
