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Re^3: Tabs vs Spaces lets give this a goby GrandFather (Saint) |
on Oct 08, 2006 at 19:01 UTC ( [id://577020]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Actually punched cards never used tab characters, they were always space indented, so in that sense I am harking back to tradition - the old ways are the good ways having survived the test of time. Actually what I was advocating was not a traditional technology when editors were not smart enough to manage spaces to provide the programmers desired indentation, but the use of modern editors that can manage space based indentation and a whole lot more besides. In very large part this whole debate is a storm in a tea cup because editors just don't care whether you use space or tab based indentation. Indeed Komodo takes a look at the document you load and makes a pretty damn good guess at what tab width is most likely to be correct for the document. Go ahead, use your anachaic and archaic tabs - my editor can eat them for breakfast and spit out spaces. DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel
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