On 2018-10-15 14:12:54 +0200, Antoon Pardon wrote: > On 13-10-18 09:37, Peter J. Holzer wrote: > > On 2018-10-09 09:55:34 +0200, Antoon Pardon wrote: > >> On 08-10-18 19:43, Peter J. Holzer wrote: > >>> In practice it doesn't work in my experience. There is always someone in > >>> a team who was "just testing that new editor" and replaced all tabs > >>> with spaces (or vice versa) or - worse - just some of them. > >> Isn't that caugth in the process of commiting to version control? > > Tabs are easy to catch. If a file contains a tab, reject it. > > > > Spaces aren't, because spaces are everywhere. > > Spaces that replaced a tab by accident, are easy to catch too. They are all > those lines that show up when you do a diff with the previous version that > shouldn't show up.
And where is the AI that decides which lines in a diff are should show
up?
Whether a line in a diff should or should not show up seems to me to be
even harder to determine than whether a tab fits the syntax.
hp
--
_ | Peter J. Holzer | we build much bigger, better disasters now
|_|_) | | because we have much more sophisticated
| | | h...@hjp.at | management tools.
__/ | http://www.hjp.at/ | -- Ross Anderson <https://www.edge.org/>
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
-- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
