His reply included a dig against gnu make for making tabs mandatory, so I don’t think this was a “stance” as in taking a pro-tabs position. He simply, reasonably, thinks parsers should be able to deal with all types of whitespace.
Well since we ditched the old 80 column terminals I’ve always thought a laid back 7 spacer tab would be sublime.
Chilled indentation and a big prime number of spaces. Very profound, what’s not to like?
His reply included a dig against gnu make for making tabs mandatory, so I don’t think this was a “stance” as in taking a pro-tabs position. He simply, reasonably, thinks parsers should be able to deal with all types of whitespace.
Tabs suck, because you can’t rely on them for consistent spacing and formatting. Spaces always win out.
Classic “you’re using it wrong”.
The tab people still use spaces for formatting if they want to format something. Tabs are only used for indentation.
Now I’m imagining how code where someone only uses tabs for everything would look.
I don’t think you know what a tab means.
How can you not rely on them for consistent spacing? It’s a tab.
But 2 or 4 spaces?
Maybe we can compromise with 3?
Heretic!
Well since we ditched the old 80 column terminals I’ve always thought a laid back 7 spacer tab would be sublime. Chilled indentation and a big prime number of spaces. Very profound, what’s not to like?