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What is this reality you speak of? (Score:1)
I’ve been programming with tabs for indentation and spaces for alignment for the better part of a decade.
I’ve never had a single problem keeping things straight in my own code.
Re:What is this reality you speak of? (Score:2)
I'm 100% with Schwern on this one. Tabs for indentation are just evil. Sure it works OK for you because you have your tools set up a certain way. But when you collaborate with others their tools will be set up differently and what they see will be different to what you see. For example I picked one of your CPAN modules at random and scrolled down looking for messed up indents. Sure enough in XML/Atom/SimpleFeed.pm [cpan.org] starting line 334 you have a group of lines that are indented with space rather than tabs. You can't see that because as Schwern says, tabs are invisible.
The reason I could zero in on the example so quickly is I have this handy little setting in my vimrc:
That causes trailing whitespace of any type and tab characters in any position to be displayed with a red background. Of course I also have a handy key mapping to turn that off when I'm working in a tab-infected project.
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Figures. From looking at what part of the file it happened in, I know exactly what went wrong, too. Vim and me, we let each other down, there… :-(
I’ve added
set listto my.vimrcto ensure it won’t happen again.(The apparently-empty lines that this exercise revealed further down the file (in the POD section, l.427 ff.) bug me even more.)