• Anarch157a@lemmy.world
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    2 years 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
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    2 years ago

    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?

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    2 years ago

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

  • T156@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    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
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      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