Gofmt No Longer Allows Spaces. Tabs Only

Re:Gofmt No Longer Allows Spaces. Tabs Only by angersock on Thursday June 19, 2014 @01:36AM (#7914619)

Often different editors on a project (hell, even between computers for the same user) may display the same file different ways, and you almost always end up with weird mixes of spaces/tabs when indenting things (especially if you're super picky like I can be and really, really care about things lining up).

Simply having the editor expand tabs (to whatever people agreed on, usually 4 for C/C++ that I've seen) and save spaces, always, makes life simpler.

EDIT:

See Grandpa Zawinski's post on same: http://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html

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Re:Gofmt No Longer Allows Spaces. Tabs Only by dTal on Thursday June 19, 2014 @04:21AM (#7915102)

I hate that Zawinsky post. At the top, he says "I'm trying to avoid espousing my personal religion here, I just thought it would be good to try and explain the various sects." At the bottom, after thoroughly missing the point about semantic indentation, he says "So go forth and untabify!"

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