Christopher Weimann wrote: > On 05/19/2006-07:18AM, Duncan Booth wrote: >> >> My experience of programming with either spaces or tabs has taught me >> that tabs are evil not for themselves, but simply because no matter how >> hard you try they always end up being mixed with spaces. >> > > Swap the word 'tabs' for the word 'spaces' and you get... > > My experience of programming with either tabs or spaces has taught me > that spaces are evil not for themselves, but simply because no matter > how hard you try they always end up being mixed with tabs. > > Which is just as vaild as the un-swapped paragraph. Both versions > express a bias. The first is biased in favor of spaces. The second is > biased in favor of tabs. Neither have any useful content. Mixing is bad > but that fact doesn't favor spaces OR tabs.
The difference is that you cannot code without spaces but you can do it without tabs. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
