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[–] [email protected] 47 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Mixing spaces and tabs should be a warcrime.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

And in Python, it's merely a SyntaxCrime.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Find me anyone who claims they use tabs for indentation, and I bet I'll find at least one case where they're using both tabs and spaces.

The only safe way to avoid war crimes is to avoid tabs.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I use the tab key but I'm pretty sure vs code converts that to spaces

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Depends on your settings, but yeah typically it does

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It worries me that a programmer wouldn't know for sure what's happening when they hit tab, and that it's a setting that can be changed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I mean I was 99% sure it convert to spaces, I cannot say I was certain. The default settings are fine for what I do, I only ever had to change the spacing from 4 to 2 spaces once when dealing with someone else's files

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Don't IDEs just replace any tab with 4 spaces anyways? Pretty sure VSCode does

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I don't use an ide, but I wrote a script that replaces any space I type with four.

I haven't worked out all the use cases yet, though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

That's a setting in the editor.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Why would I use spaces if I use tabs? Also, it seemd like a huge waste of time hitting the space bar so many times...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Why would I use spaces if I use tabs?

To comply with Python's best practices:

https://peps.python.org/pep-0008/

Also, if you work on the Linux Kernel, you'll see a mix of tabs and spaces:

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/block/bfq-iosched.c#L390

Also, it seemd like a huge waste of time hitting the space bar so many times…

You use an editor that doesn't auto-indent?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)