On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dave Hansen wrote: > >> TAB characters are evil. They should be banned from Python source >> code. The interpreter should stop translation of code and throw an >> exception when one is encountered. Seriously. At least, I'm serious >> when I say that. I've never seen TAB characters solve more problems >> than they cause in any application. >> >> But I suspect I'm a lone voice crying in the wilderness. Regards, > > You're not alone. > > I still don't get why there is still people using real tabs as > indentation.
I use real tabs. To me, it seems perfectly simple - i want the line to be indented a level, so i use a tab. That's what tabs are for. And i've never, ever come across any problem with using tabs. Spaces, on the otherhand, can be annoying: using spaces means that the author's personal preference about how wide a tab should be gets embedded in the code, so if that's different to mine, i end up having to look at weird code. Navigating and editing the code with arrow-keys under a primitive editor, which one is sometimes forced to do, is also slower and more error-prone. So, could someone explain what's so evil about tabs? tom -- Space Travel is Another Word for Love! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
