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We use the word "the" a lot in English. It would make sense to just replace it with a single character. But joking aside, I think the point is that the spacer
by greydius 11y ago
We use the word "the" a lot in English. It would make sense to just replace it with a single character.
But joking aside, I think the point is that the spacers (a lot of them, at least) don't want a semantic space that people can adjust; they want the code to look exactly the same for everyone. I'm reminded of Frank Lloyd Wright, who would design every aspect of a building, even the furniture.
- lifthrasiir 11y ago> We use the word "the" a lot in English. It would make sense to just replace it with a single character. Indeed the Shavian alphabet [1] has a single character abbreviation for "the" (should have been a th-e digraph). Of course, the same goes to the failure of Shavian and other reforms. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavian_alphabet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavian_alphabet
- lanna 11y agoIn Portuguese, "the" is "o" (masculine) or "a" (feminine). "and" is "e". Pretty simple, eh? Before you ask, no, "i" and "u" have no meaning :-)
- kazinator 11y agoThe spacers are right. Even if you use tabs, there is a correct tab size that must be used, due to inner alignment: if (foo) { /* aligned blah(); comment */ My autotab.c relies on this as one of its heuristics to determine the proper hard tab size for a file. A tab size that produces good inner alignment gets a score boost. The wrong tab size will wreck inner alignment. http://www.kylheku.com/cgit/c-snippets/tree/autotab.c http://www.kylheku.com/cgit/c-snippets/tree/autotab.c