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Indent testers needed (Prothon)

rzed rzantow at ntelos.net
Sat Apr 3 16:51:01 EST 2004 
"Mark Hahn" <mark at prothon.org> wrote in
news:KFDbc.148020$cx5.28330 at fed1read04: 

> 
> "Ville Vainio" <ville at spammers.com> wrote
> 
>> Just allow both spaces and tabs, but not in the same block.
> 
> This is a good idea.  I could reset the flag for the indent type
> whenever the indentation goes to zero.  I'll pitch this on the
> Prothon list. 
> 
> "rezed" wrote ...
> 
>> I don't show visible tab marks in my editors, and I don't want
>> to have to, but if I don't, I haven't any good way to know
>> whether a piece of code contains tabs or spaces. Until I run
>> it, at least. 
> 
> I agree this is a problem, but the whole problem we are trying
> to solve, that of mixed spaces and tabs, would cause you the
> same grief, or worse, right?
> 
> 
> 

Not necessarily, at least in Python. I can paste a  function in its 
entirety and not need to know whether it uses tabs or spaces. In 
Prothon (at the moment), a mixture would give me a parse error. 

But in the more general case, yes it could cause the same grief. If 
I made wholesale cut and paste changes to a file, scattering many 
tab-indented statements in among my space-indented ones, it would 
take at least a little while to straighten it out. In any case, it 
is more an annoyance than a showstopper, I'd say. If I got into the 
habit of bringing all external code into a file and saving it, my 
editor would convert the tabs to my default and the code would be 
usable without difficulty. I can live with that little thing.

-- 
rzed
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