How many spaces a tab is worth
David Allouche
(01 Dec 2003 12:44 UTC)
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Re: How many spaces a tab is worth
bear
(02 Dec 2003 04:16 UTC)
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Re: How many spaces a tab is worth
redhog@xxxxxx
(04 Dec 2003 20:33 UTC)
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Re: How many spaces a tab is worth
Bradd W. Szonye
(04 Dec 2003 22:05 UTC)
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Re: How many spaces a tab is worth
Taylor Campbell
(04 Dec 2003 22:43 UTC)
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Re: How many spaces a tab is worth
redhog@xxxxxx
(05 Dec 2003 00:06 UTC)
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Re: How many spaces a tab is worth bear (05 Dec 2003 00:27 UTC)
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Re: How many spaces a tab is worth bear 05 Dec 2003 00:27 UTC
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, RedHog ([iso-8859-1] Egil Möller) wrote: >Dear Bear, > >I won't comment much on your mail, as it seems to mostly be a troll. I'm not trolling. That was, clearly and simply, my honest opinion. I don't want to fight about it; I just didn't want anyone to make any mistakes about me supporting something just because I said it would be less bad one way than another. With tabs prohibited, your proposal is merely horrible. With them allowed and bound to a non- standard number of spaces it would be even worse. >Specifically, the only code that would break, would be code that had >two consecutive topplevel expressions, with the second line indented >more, as in > >(define foo bar) > > (define fie naja) > >To code like that clearly is not very usefull, and so isn't found in >many progams (most progams I've seen have had all topplevel >expressions non-indented). Happens all the time during development when I move an internal definition to outside the scope it was originally in because I find that it's necessary to have it have larger scope. I cut the line from its internal-declaration scope and paste it into its new location in the file, among other top level declarations. Cleaning up indentation comes later. >The rest of your garbage, I've dumped in /dev/null... No you didn't, you silly person; you qouted the entire thing and top-posted your response. Here, I'll delete it for you. I wish I could do the same with your silly proposal to ruin scheme syntax with significant indentation. Bear