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[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 22 points 1 month ago

You can use spaces in Python.

[-] marduk@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 1 month ago

Two, three or four spaces? If you answer wrong I'll never forgive you

[-] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 16 points 1 month ago

Whatever your place defines as a standard. I’ve seen ugly code in C, JavaScript, Java, etc., that uses them all over the place because they’re not mandatory.

If you don’t have consistent indenting, your code looks like copy/paste from several sources; but if you do have consistent indenting, then the indenting of Python is a non-issue.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 1 month ago

Per the Linux kernel coding style:

Tabs are 8 characters, and thus indentations are also 8 characters. There are heretic movements that try to make indentations 4 (or even 2!) characters deep, and that is akin to trying to define the value of PI to be 3.

[-] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago

First off, I’d suggest printing out a copy of the GNU coding standards, and NOT read it. Burn them, it’s a great symbolic gesture.

[-] fartsparkles@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I’m rather partial to five myself but only when I’m feeling fancy.

[-] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

No one will ever know. That is my editor's job. XD

[-] ChaosMonkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

Depends on the mood.

[-] firelizzard@programming.dev 12 points 1 month ago

Indentation-driven control flow is one of the most cursed things ever invented, excluding things explicitly designed to inflict pain or death.

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 month ago

White space sensitive languages are evil.

[-] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago

Haskell has the choice of both indentation based and brackets for things like do blocks, but most people use indentation based cause it's the norm and looks cleaner

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