On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 2:01 AM, Roy Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > In article <[email protected]>, > Chris Angelico <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 12:52 AM, Nobody <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Historically, software and hardware which assigns a meaning to a tab >> > character has come in two flavours: >> > >> > 1. Tab stops are every 8 columns; this cannot be changed. >> > 2. Tab stops are configurable, defaulting to every 8 columns. >> >> 3. Tab stops are measured in something other than characters. >> >> With variable-width fonts, it's illogical to set tab stops in >> characters. DeScribe Word Processor defined them in centimeters, way >> back in the early... well, I didn't meet it till the 90s, but I don't >> know how long it had been around before that. > > What makes sense for a word processor and what makes sense for a > programming language are two very different things.
Yes. I was just completing the set, since the heading didn't specify *for programming languages*. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
