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C++ Moment (lemmy.world)

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[-] WhiteHawk@lemmy.world 47 points 6 months ago

Mixing spaces and tabs should be a warcrime.

[-] pingveno@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 months ago

And in Python, it's merely a SyntaxCrime.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works -5 points 6 months ago

Find me anyone who claims they use tabs for indentation, and I bet I'll find at least one case where they're using both tabs and spaces.

The only safe way to avoid war crimes is to avoid tabs.

[-] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 7 points 6 months ago

Don't IDEs just replace any tab with 4 spaces anyways? Pretty sure VSCode does

[-] _dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz 4 points 6 months ago

I don't use an ide, but I wrote a script that replaces any space I type with four.

I haven't worked out all the use cases yet, though.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

That's a setting in the editor.

[-] dotMonkey@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

I use the tab key but I'm pretty sure vs code converts that to spaces

[-] gears@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago

Depends on your settings, but yeah typically it does

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

It worries me that a programmer wouldn't know for sure what's happening when they hit tab, and that it's a setting that can be changed.

[-] dotMonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I mean I was 99% sure it convert to spaces, I cannot say I was certain. The default settings are fine for what I do, I only ever had to change the spacing from 4 to 2 spaces once when dealing with someone else's files

[-] HopFlop@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 6 months ago

Why would I use spaces if I use tabs? Also, it seemd like a huge waste of time hitting the space bar so many times...

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Why would I use spaces if I use tabs?

To comply with Python's best practices:

https://peps.python.org/pep-0008/

Also, if you work on the Linux Kernel, you'll see a mix of tabs and spaces:

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/block/bfq-iosched.c#L390

Also, it seemd like a huge waste of time hitting the space bar so many times…

You use an editor that doesn't auto-indent?

[-] FlorianSimon@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

I assume this was a joke 😁

[-] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 2 points 6 months ago

I use vi without syntax highlighting.

[-] FlorianSimon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

Please don't hack me, mister FBI

[-] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 1 points 6 months ago

To be fair you can totally bind an arbitrary number of spaces to tab in vi. I'll dig out the syntax highlighting file some time. Oh and I use vim really.