From: Steve Litt <slitt@...>
Date: 2005-12-23T03:23:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Bruce Eckel and Ruby

On Thursday 22 December 2005 09:03 am, tony summerfelt wrote:
> Hal Fulton wrote on 12/20/2005 3:33 PM:
> > As for significant whitespace -- surely it's a matter of
> > opinion whether this is the "right" way or not. One can make
> > arguments in both directions. I was initially drawn to the
> > idea, but after playing with it, I found it had its drawbacks.
>
> i'll say. when one space too many or too few can mean time spent
> hunting it down to make a program work i think it's a serious
> design flaw in a language.

That's why I use tabs and only tabs for indentation, in any 
language. You can set Vim or enscript to make a tabstop ever 3 
columns, but there's no way to mistakenly put too few or too many.

I think spaces are OK also, but when people start mixing tabs and 
spaces, I just gotta scream.

SteveT

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