How many spaces a tab is worth
David Allouche 01 Dec 2003 12:44 UTC
The draft reads:
For this proposal, a TAB should be counted as exactly four spaces.
That is wrong. TAB is worth 8 spaces if anything. Anyway, mixing tabs
and spaces for indentation is a neverending source of confusion. There
should be features to have this cause warnings or errors. See PEP-8 for
how the Python people handle that issue:
http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0008.html
HTML4 also has a warning about the tab-indentation issue:
http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/struct/text.html#edef-PRE
Anyway, the current proposal is is worst possible in regard to that
specific issue.
About the rest of the SRFI, I have too much a hard time understanding
the production rules to make any constructive comment, but the examples
look right to me.
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-- ddaa