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Andrew needs to radically change his stance on Tabs for the language to be taken seriously. White space must be ignored, and Andrew should overlook his personal
by smallstepforman 6y ago
Andrew needs to radically change his stance on Tabs for the language to be taken seriously. White space must be ignored, and Andrew should overlook his personal bias and cater to the ‘preserve white space’ crowd. Because formatting and readability matter - a lot.
- schaefer 6y agoYou refer to "Andrew's stance on tabs" without being specific or providing a reference, so I wend digging for more details in the language FAQ. From the reference I found[1], Andrew's stance is: The current zig tooling forces spaces instead of tabs because the tooling for the language is not yet complete. The self hosted compiler (which the community will start using just as soon as it's ready) already does accept both tabs and spaces. So, I'm not able to understand your complaint at all. Perhaps you could you elaborate, provide a reference, or soften your stance? [1]: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/FAQ#why-does-zig-force-me-to-use-spaces-instead-of-tabs https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/FAQ#why-does-zig-force-m...
- saagarjha 6y agoI am very curious why the stage1 compiler cannot just run zig fmt prior to parsing the code as a stopgap until the self-hosted compiler is complete…