Gofmt No Longer Allows Spaces. Tabs Only

Re:Gofmt No Longer Allows Spaces. Tabs Only by gmjosack on Thursday June 19, 2014 @01:47AM (#7914644)

The way people solve that is tabs for indentation and spaces for alignment. In my opinion this is a terrible compromise as mixing tabs and spaces is sacrilegious.

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Re:Gofmt No Longer Allows Spaces. Tabs Only by msutherl on Thursday June 19, 2014 @01:56AM (#7914665)

There is nothing wrong with mixing tabs and spaces. It works great.

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Re:Gofmt No Longer Allows Spaces. Tabs Only by _pctq on Thursday June 19, 2014 @03:36AM (#7914864)

Provided everyone use the same tab width :)

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Re:Gofmt No Longer Allows Spaces. Tabs Only by dTal on Thursday June 19, 2014 @04:25AM (#7915129)

Nope, works regardless of tabwidth; that's the point. Tabs for indent (these change size with tabwidth), spaces for alignment (these don't change so things stay aligned).

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Re:Gofmt No Longer Allows Spaces. Tabs Only by oelmekki on Thursday June 19, 2014 @06:47AM (#7915494)

Oh, you're right. I should have tried it before commenting :)

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Re:Gofmt No Longer Allows Spaces. Tabs Only by jsmthrowaway on Thursday June 19, 2014 @02:00AM (#7914678)

Until Python. Then it doesn't.

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Re:Gofmt No Longer Allows Spaces. Tabs Only by markrages on Thursday June 19, 2014 @02:50AM (#7914773)

tabs for indent, spaces for alignment works great with Python.

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Re:Gofmt No Longer Allows Spaces. Tabs Only by peteretep on Thursday June 19, 2014 @03:12AM (#7914817)

What's a compromise about it? Alignment and indentation are different semantic things, so it makes perfect sense to mix them.

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