Re: [pygame] Spaces And Tabs Pointlessly Time-Wasting Religious Schism

[Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bill Coderre wrote:

> Perhaps a better solution would be to agree on a spaces-tabs exchange  
> rates

That would negate the main benefit of using tabs (only),
which is precisely that they *don't* represent any fixed
amount of indentation. You can set your editor to display
them using whatever spacing you prefer.

Unfortunately, the totally haphazard way that the various
tools out there handle tabs makes it impractical to use
them this way outside of a controlled environment.

Given that, the convention of four-space indents makes
sense as an *interchange* format. Use whatever works best
for you internally, but convert to four-space indents
when sharing code with others.

Cookies wouldn't really help unless all the tools out
there (not just text editors, but print formatters,
mail and news handlers, etc.) understood them. And if we
had the power to make them do that, we could make them
handle tabs in a consistent way in the first place, and
we wouldn't have a problem.

--
Greg