Yesterday, I shared some spicy takes. A few were particularly controversial—most notably, that I correct Gif the correct way (with a soft G)—but I also got a lot of emails asking me to elaborate on a few of them.
Today, I wanted to talk about how tabs are objectively better than spaces. This won’t take long.
Tabs let you define how big you want each indent to be, and spaces do not.
Now next time I read anything about why any Python libraries are named what they are named, I’m going to hear Dr Doofenschmirtz voice. Thank you for that.
What, the code is made up by the number of consecutive spaces, delineated by tabs, line feeds, carriage returns (which have different semantics from line feeds) and non-breaking spaces?
My program, written in the whitespace language, ruined.
CURSE YOU PERRY THE PLATYPUS!
Now next time I read anything about why any Python libraries are named what they are named, I’m going to hear Dr Doofenschmirtz voice. Thank you for that.
What, the code is made up by the number of consecutive spaces, delineated by tabs, line feeds, carriage returns (which have different semantics from line feeds) and non-breaking spaces?