[#3986] Re: Principle of least effort -- another Ruby virtue. — Andrew Hunt <andy@...>

> Principle of Least Effort.

14 messages 2000/07/14

[#4043] What are you using Ruby for? — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

16 messages 2000/07/16

[#4139] Facilitating Ruby self-propagation with the rig-it autopolymorph application. — Conrad Schneiker <schneik@...>

Hi,

11 messages 2000/07/20

[ruby-talk:03855] Re: Array.pick

From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>
Date: 2000-07-06 03:29:35 UTC
List: ruby-talk #3855
> Anyway, I think (hope) my original mail was indented properly. Uh, I see.
> You're referring to usage of tabs instead of two spaces. Well, that's true,
> a blunder. So there's no recommendation to treat '\t' as '  '?

\t counts as a number of spaces varying from 1 to 8, whatever necessary to
move to the next column number multiple of 8 (starting column is 0)

This is the standard most everywhere, and when not, just replace 8 by 4 or
2. In any case, "\t" is not always (and usually not) equivalent to "  ".



Mathieu Bouchard


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