"janderson" wrote
> BCS wrote:
>> Reply to Bill,
>>
>>
>>> Tabs are evil!
>>> Let the flame war begin!
>>> --bb
>>>
>>
>> The only way to avoid a tab war is to make the only legal use of white space so horrid* that you can't edit the language without a pretty printer. Then everyone get there own way.
>>
>> *the only valid WS is a single tab but only if it is needed to make things lex correctly.  <G>
>>
>>
>
> I always just throw beer at the problem and it goes away.
>
> -Joel

I tried that, but it's really hard to wash beer off your monitor when it dries.

-Steve

Reply to Jarrett,

> "BCS" <ao@pathlink.com> wrote in message
> news:55391cb32e92f8caa4fde2e122e4@news.digitalmars.com...
> 
>> No that won't work, somone might be able to stand that style. Then
>> people would complain.
>> 
> I'm not following.  ;)
> 

The idea is to have a system that is SO bad that *everyone* hates. It's mostly a joke around the idea that with good enough pretty printers tabs, spaces and indenting styles are irrelevant.

"BCS" <ao@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:55391cb32e9818caa588f746b9de@news.digitalmars.com...
> Reply to Jarrett,
>
>> "BCS" <ao@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:55391cb32e92f8caa4fde2e122e4@news.digitalmars.com...
>>
>>> No that won't work, somone might be able to stand that style. Then people would complain.
>>>
>> I'm not following.  ;)
>>
>
> The idea is to have a system that is SO bad that *everyone* hates. It's mostly a joke around the idea that with good enough pretty printers tabs, spaces and indenting styles are irrelevant.

I see :)