It's worth noting that some people have visual problems such that if the indentation is too small, they can't really make out if a line is more indented than the line above or not. Suck it up may not be an option.
Beyond that, we'll have to agree to disagree. Your method sounds like a lot of work just to get what I get for free by using tabs for indentation.
The farmers are paying an assessed fee for withdrawing water from the aquifer under their own land using their own well. "The market" would charge them nothing. Unfortunately, Mother Nature doesn't give a crap about our concepts of property and the aquifer runs under a LOT of land so one man's pumping on his own land depletes other people's wells on their own land.
So you would prefer that they actually make it 2 spaces as a hard setting so when you are looking at the same deeply indented code, you keep losing track of what level of nesting you're in?
Your argument supports using one or the other rather than a jumbled mix, but it doesn't actually show one to be preferable to the other.
Given that, I argue the win goes to indenting with tabs and using spaces for other formatting on the line. Indenting with tab allows each person to have the visual appearance that works best for them without screwing up the code. If you like a 2 space indent and I like 4 but Joe who has a visual impairment needs 8 to avoid confusion, we can all have our way by using tabs and setting tabstops appropriately. But if Joe uses spaces, you and I are going to be quite unhappy.
There is a gap in the story there probably due to artistic license. However, we can assume either of they got a warrant or that they told the company they could shut it down OR they would issue a warning on national TV telling people to unplug the cameras to prevent having their baby sold on the black market. Now, THAT would destroy the company but it would be fair enough.
It could be a quality issue. I always used Sun drives. Very heavy construction made alignment issues unlikely. I also made sure to retension the tapes.
But more to the point, you and I are expected to obey the law. It's the ultimate contract of adhesion. You are deemed to have accepted it before you are even able to understand speech, much less writing.
From that springs society's obligation to the individual.
You personally might not, but the society you are part of sure seems to enjoy such things.
Of course, harm can be a slippery concept. Possibilities of things I might do to make a living that others might not appreciate include (in my suburban home), replacing grass with edible crops, holding concerts in the front yard, opening a junkyard, hunting, opening an auto repair, etc etc.
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It's worth noting that some people have visual problems such that if the indentation is too small, they can't really make out if a line is more indented than the line above or not. Suck it up may not be an option.
Beyond that, we'll have to agree to disagree. Your method sounds like a lot of work just to get what I get for free by using tabs for indentation.
What makes it cheaper than cleaning up from tab indentation?
Citation very much needed!
He was just shooting his mouth off. Hard to say how seriously. He wasn't asking for applications.
Then the FBI told him "we have a plan and we can get a bomb, wanna join?". In other words, backwards from the acceptable position.
What market? There is none.
The farmers are paying an assessed fee for withdrawing water from the aquifer under their own land using their own well. "The market" would charge them nothing. Unfortunately, Mother Nature doesn't give a crap about our concepts of property and the aquifer runs under a LOT of land so one man's pumping on his own land depletes other people's wells on their own land.
So please tell us, what market?
Nuclear power is cheap. The political process is expensive.
As opposed to every other whitespace scheme that gets messed up somehow leading to a maintenance burden?
You should read a bit about left libertarianism (for example).
And every single person who uses spaces is doing it wrong by definition :-p
^THIS^ exactly.
Use an abstract character to express an abstraction.
Why not use them as intended. Tab for line indentation and space for other formatting. Think of tab as specifying the nesting level.
Done right, that will get it right no matter what the next guy sets tabs to look like in his editor.
Actually, tabs save a lot of grief in Python unless some bonehead mixes in some spaces in tab indented code.
I'm sorry :se ts=4 is so hard. Perhaps you should edit preferences so you need only do it once.
neither of us sees any fucked up layout
Provided we both have the same taste in indentation. Otherwise, we both see fucked up layout.
Tabs are exactly one level of nesting, no matter what you choose to make that look like in your personal settings.
No, tabs are the number of spaces you say they are, at least when indenting.
So you would prefer that they actually make it 2 spaces as a hard setting so when you are looking at the same deeply indented code, you keep losing track of what level of nesting you're in?
Your argument supports using one or the other rather than a jumbled mix, but it doesn't actually show one to be preferable to the other.
Given that, I argue the win goes to indenting with tabs and using spaces for other formatting on the line. Indenting with tab allows each person to have the visual appearance that works best for them without screwing up the code. If you like a 2 space indent and I like 4 but Joe who has a visual impairment needs 8 to avoid confusion, we can all have our way by using tabs and setting tabstops appropriately. But if Joe uses spaces, you and I are going to be quite unhappy.
How so? I've not found it to be a problem except when some ID10T uses spaces somewhere.
There is a gap in the story there probably due to artistic license. However, we can assume either of they got a warrant or that they told the company they could shut it down OR they would issue a warning on national TV telling people to unplug the cameras to prevent having their baby sold on the black market. Now, THAT would destroy the company but it would be fair enough.
It is also possible to have a valid and well balanced social contract that doesn't involve authoritarian government.
It could be a quality issue. I always used Sun drives. Very heavy construction made alignment issues unlikely. I also made sure to retension the tapes.
I have never lost data due to a DDS tape failure.
LTO is more durable to be sure, but it's also priced out of the consumer market and mostly out of the small business market.
BLAM!
But more to the point, you and I are expected to obey the law. It's the ultimate contract of adhesion. You are deemed to have accepted it before you are even able to understand speech, much less writing.
From that springs society's obligation to the individual.
You personally might not, but the society you are part of sure seems to enjoy such things.
Of course, harm can be a slippery concept. Possibilities of things I might do to make a living that others might not appreciate include (in my suburban home), replacing grass with edible crops, holding concerts in the front yard, opening a junkyard, hunting, opening an auto repair, etc etc.