From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!peer02.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 21:18:14 -0500 From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 22:18:14 -0400 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn Message-ID: <491hkc54jckf5m2bikgpfvv4bvscvams7n@4ax.com> References: <9ae52cb4-3a8a-4b3e-85f8-d571da6c15b0@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 X-No-Archive: YES MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.68.179.177 X-Trace: sv3-ym2euWIsbnONbmIV5yFr37ySLoovm3EPA8vNgLyN1qqSmaEXHJoH7SnjxObRIllzwuzWb5lfkA/2GvO!zBn26mvEyISN37obyCNjFtUnGLCPdpO30DmFzUZY1NAqD+WUTqn/IcOsG3xBw9Ujox6pM6N+Ufyy!mthFTZrTNczKMkA5yjqPRxkeGc8H X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2106 X-Received-Bytes: 2197 X-Received-Body-CRC: 2226130495 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:47022 Date: 2017-06-19T22:18:14-04:00 List-Id: 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/ code 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. -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/