𝔻𝔼𝕍𝕀𝕃𝕀𝕊ℍC++ Moment
𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬Python: So you used spaces and tabs for indentation? NOW DIE!
xigoiGood. Spaces and tabs for indentation should never be mixed in any language other than Whitespace.
Raw adjust with tabs, fine adjust with spaces.
Don’t laugh, people are actually doing that.
FareshSome people use tabs for indentation and spaces for alignment. It kind of gets the pros of tabs (user configurable indent-width) and the pros of spaces (alignment).
There are no pros to tabs. Configure tabs to a number of spaces.
Are you ok?
Mixing spaces and tabs should be a warcrime.
mercFind 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.
I use the tab key but I’m pretty sure vs code converts that to spaces
Depends on your settings, but yeah typically it does
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.
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
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…
Most modern editors/IDEs do indentation automatically and, when you press the tab key, insert whatever style of indentation you have configured (tab, multiple spaces at once)
Why would I use spaces if I use tabs?
To comply with Python’s best practices:
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?
PEP 8 – Style Guide for Python Code | peps.python.org
This document gives coding conventions for the Python code comprising the standard library in the main Python distribution. Please see the companion informational PEP describing style guidelines for the C code in the C implementation of Python.
I assume this was a joke 😁
I use vi without syntax highlighting.
Please don’t hack me, mister FBI
To be fair you can totally bind an arbitrary number of spaces to tab in vi. I’ll dig out the syntax highlighting file some time. Oh and I use vim really.
I do use neovim myself too 😁
HolzkohlenDon’t IDEs just replace any tab with 4 spaces anyways? Pretty sure VSCode does
_dev_nullI 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.
That’s a setting in the editor.
Linux kernel?
The kernel definitely mixes tabs and spaces:
And in Python, it’s merely a SyntaxCrime.
Malle_YenoMixing tabs and white spaces in 2024 is categorically a you problem lmao