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If you ever screw up the whitespace, it's possible that the mistake won't show up in common diffing software, because most diffing software is designed with the
by maxlybbert 12y ago
If you ever screw up the whitespace, it's possible that the mistake won't show up in common diffing software, because most diffing software is designed with the assumption that whitespace is insignificant (and hard to display).
- coldtea 12y agoSo they should just have made tabs compulsory. Problem solved.
- krapp 12y agoIronically, as soon as you need a tool to make whitespace visible in order to determine which delimiter you're using where, you're just using C-style braces again, only now there are two kinds of braces, which are incompatible, and otherwise visually indistinguishable.