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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Create a language where tabs are used for indentation while comments are formed by one space character at the beginning of a line, followed by a tab. Exactly eight spaces at the beginning of a line means that line is continuation of the previous one.

Maybe I'll start an Anarchy Programming sublemmy.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you put those images the wrong way around, pal 😠

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I agree, the others are wrong.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's why you get the best of both worlds, and combine them to use tabspaces. Everyone will hate you equally, achieving true equality in the proecss.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tab characters are space efficient and configurable for each person in their editor. Space characters are consistent between developers.

Solution: each tabspace indent is a random width, making it both inconsistent and non-configurable. Also, each character is the size of at least four regular characters, so it’s not even space efficient

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Honestly the best solution is tabs for indentation and spaces for alignment.

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

The only wrong person here is the one with whitespace marked invisible smh

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I·don't·know·what·you·mean.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I prefer to use three alt+255

[–] DonjonMaister 3 points 1 year ago

I have no problem with either. But I do have a problem with people who use the space bar instead of the tab key.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Just set your tab width to 1. No more argument now.

[–] drew_belloc 3 points 1 year ago

Finally someone that speaks the hard truth that we need to hear

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The only solution is to use a curly brace language and write everything on one line.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The real question is spaces around curly braces or not?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Have spaces around curly braces modify the behaviour. That way, you can incorporated both.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I like it, at least it's a prime number!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've always found it weird people call it white spacing when most coders use night mode on their ide, shouldn't it be black space?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

😂😂😂

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hard to imagine how anyone could be so wrong :P

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

As a JS developer, I prefer to use semicolons for indentation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My indentation is secretly the actual program written in the whitespace programming language.