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The lengths we have to go to (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] 23 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

Programming languages that use white space to delimit structure are annoying at best. I get annoyed at yaml too, but I'm ok once I have a few templates set up.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    YAML comes with its own unique pains in the ass https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2023/01/11/the-yaml-document-from-hell

    These things actually matter, come up often enough to actually be annoying, and are a bit difficult to explain and learn into people. You’re basically fine if you just string quote everything that you can, but nobody does that.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Use TABS guys TABS.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Tabs suck. Use a real editor and spaces work fine.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Why tabs suck? Explain.

    Tabs are neat.

    Does you app have too many nested functions?

    Use tab width = 2

    Do your app have too less nested functions?

    Use tab width = 8

    Is your app having average number of nested fns?

    Use tab width = 4(mostly default)

    And all theese can happen without modifying a single byte in the source file, unlike spaces!

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Except that you have to either indent with only tabs or indent with only spaces. Any time you mix tabs and spaces you are just asking for disaster.

    If you indent with only tabs you can't align things except on tab boundaries. If you have a function that takes 10 parameters and want to do it on multiple lines, the alignment of the extra parameters is going to be ugly.

    If you indent with only spaces, you can indent things so that all the parameters line up directly underneath the parenthesis, for example.

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