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[–] Anarch157a@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Create a language where tabs are used for indentation while comments are formed by one space character at the beginning of a line, followed by a tab. Exactly eight spaces at the beginning of a line means that line is continuation of the previous one.

Maybe I'll start an Anarchy Programming sublemmy.

[–] Mike835@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've always found it weird people call it white spacing when most coders use night mode on their ide, shouldn't it be black space?

[–] zexu@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

😂😂😂

[–] Eavolution@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The only solution is to use a curly brace language and write everything on one line.

[–] draggeta@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The real question is spaces around curly braces or not?

[–] T156@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Have spaces around curly braces modify the behaviour. That way, you can incorporated both.

[–] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Just set your tab width to 1. No more argument now.

[–] Lachy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

My indentation is secretly the actual program written in the whitespace programming language.

[–] Chet_Awesomelad@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I think you put those images the wrong way around, pal 😠

[–] tr00st@lemmy.tr00st.co.uk 1 points 1 year ago

As a JS developer, I prefer to use semicolons for indentation.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

3 spaces!

Fight me!

[–] astrsk@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I prefer to use three alt+255

[–] T156@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's why you get the best of both worlds, and combine them to use tabspaces. Everyone will hate you equally, achieving true equality in the process.

[–] mundane_party@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Tab characters are space efficient and configurable for each person in their editor. Space characters are consistent between developers.

Solution: each tabspace indent is a random width, making it both inconsistent and non-configurable. Also, each character is the size of at least four regular characters, so it’s not even space efficient

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