From: Clark C . E. <cc...@cl...> - 2002-03-08 00:42:33
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On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 05:18:12PM -0500, Oren Ben-Kiki wrote: | The problem with YAC#23 is that if I edit a YAML file without a directive, I | have to find out whether it is a tabs-only or space-only file and act | accordingly. Sounds trivial perhaps, but I predict it would be a major pain | for "average joe": "I just opened the file in my editor, added a few lines | at the end, and now it doesn't work. How was I to know???". Ok. This is convincing enough then. If someone uses tabs and doesn't declare them, we give them a nice error message. | I might have gone with YAC#23 anyway if tab-only files were something we | want to encourage. But we don't. We want to encourage *space* only files. So | I don't see as an advantage the fact that we save people writing tab-only | files the effort of adding a #TAB directive. On the contrary, I see it as a | disadvantage. Tabs are *evil*. Anyone using them, even in a "safe" way, | should pay the price of the discomfort he's inflicting on the rest of us. Ok. | YAC#22 it is for me... Ok. I'll go for 22; modified to use Brian's shorter tab declarations, #TAB:8, #TAB:4:HARD. So that is two votes. Brian? Clark |