Hallöchen! Ben Finney writes:
> Torsten Bronger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> [...] the width of a tab is nowhere defined. It really is a >> matter of the editor's settings. > > RFC 678 "Standard File Formats" > <URL:http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc678.txt>: > > Horizontal Tab <HT> > > [...] As far as I can see, this excerpt of a net standard has been neither normative nor influential on the behaviour of text editors. >> I, for example, dislike too wide indenting. I use four columns in >> Python and two in Delphi. However, there are Python projects >> using eight spaces for each indentation level. > > How many columns to indent source code is an orthogonal question > to how wide an ASCII TAB (U+0009) should be rendered. [...] I don't know what you want to say with this. Obviousy, it is impossible to indent four columns with 8-columns tabs. Anyway, my sentence was supposed just to lead to the following: >> If all Python code used tabs, everybody could use their own >> preferences, for both reading and writing code, and >> interoperability would be maintained nevertheless. > > Interoperability isn't the only criterion though. On the contrary, > source code is primarily for reading by programmers, and only > incidentally for reading by the compiler. Well, I, the programmer, want code snippets from different origins fit together as seemlessly as possible, and I want to use my editor settings for every piece of Python code that I load into it. Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten Bronger, aquisgrana, europa vetus Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (See http://ime.webhop.org for further contact info.) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
