Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 3 days agoWhat is the smallest hill you would die on?message-squaremessage-square288fedilinkarrow-up128arrow-down10
arrow-up128arrow-down1message-squareWhat is the smallest hill you would die on?Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 3 days agomessage-square288fedilink
minus-squaremindbleach@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agoReading a tab as however many spaces is trivial, and the point of tabs. Reading however many spaces as a tab is a gross hack that has to be dialed-in for whatever standard the document chose. Just use tabs in the first place. God damn. That’s what they’re for.
minus-squareWaraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-22 days agoI’m on team tab 100% I guess I was saying if someone felt they had to use spaces then they shouldn’t handicap everyone else because of their choice and an interpreter could normalize their code.
Reading a tab as however many spaces is trivial, and the point of tabs.
Reading however many spaces as a tab is a gross hack that has to be dialed-in for whatever standard the document chose.
Just use tabs in the first place. God damn. That’s what they’re for.
I’m on team tab 100% I guess I was saying if someone felt they had to use spaces then they shouldn’t handicap everyone else because of their choice and an interpreter could normalize their code.