Bugs in the YAML specification

Re:Bugs in the YAML specification by andybak on Sunday September 04, 2016 @05:55PM (#12426908)

You see, as much as you have strong feelings about whitespace (to the extent of reaching for your caps-lock key), so do I. I personally feel it's a great loss to code style and readability that Python become an outlier in terms of arguing for significant whitespace.

But this isn't the time for that tired old debate. I won't convince you any more than I'll convince someone about the One True Brace Style or Vim vs EMACS (actually - hold on. I can't stand either of them).

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Re:Bugs in the YAML specification by mjevans on Sunday September 04, 2016 @07:18PM (#12427196)

Python's mistake is not including a default-coding-style formatting system with the language (or if it does, making it so obscure I don't know about it).

The formatter should ALSO, when cleaning up the code, see if it compiles with four spaces equal to a tab, and then if not, if eight spaces is a tab.

I'd prefer that levels of intent be a tab (not space; if you're going to make presentation of indent important make it something the client CAN modify without changing the meaning of the code).

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