Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more'

[Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>]

On Mon, 19 Jun 2017 18:49:12 -0700 (PDT), frankmanning@earthlink.net
declaimed the following:

>I remember the whole tabs-vs-spaces thing was a sore subject when I got my first programming job in 1981. To me it's unbelievable that it's still unresolved 36 years later.

	It's a significant factor for Python. Tabs are considered equivalent to
8-space indent, regardless of how the editor is configured to display them.

	Someone using a 4-space display editor /sees/

<sp><sp><sp><sp>code
<tab>code

as being the same level of indent, the Python parser sees 

<4-sp>code
<8-sp>code

hence different indentation levels -- and since Python uses indent level to
determine the end of code blocks, it will object.
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