From: Pete T. <pr...@vi...> - 2002-09-05 03:40:59
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On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Oren Ben-Kiki wrote: > Well... The problem is that we can't tell in advance. Sure, all > users of YAML _now_ are "early adopters", have smart editors, > configure their editors and so on. They definitely need no #TAB > directive. The question is what happens when YAML starts to be > widely adopted - that is, used by people that don't match the above > profile. I don't know how much of a problem tabs would be then; > nobody knows. One newbie's perspective: I've been using PyYaml for a few weeks now. I'm an emacs user from way back, but I jump from Windows to CygWin to various flavors of Linux throughout the day. I have no idea how my tabs are set on these various machines. I have learned that when PyYaml gives me a baffling error message, the first step is to untabify the file and try again. Out of a half dozen such episodes I can't remember a time when untabify didn't fix the problem. Other than a genuine bug (a # in a literal gets dismissed as a comment--I alerted Steve already), my tab stumbles have been the only negative part of using Yaml. I would much rather have a "no tabs please" message than to have the variety of other messages that can result from indentation being off. -- Pete |