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  • From: "Michael Kay" <mike AT saxonica.com>
  • To: "'Noam Tamim'" <noamtm AT gmail.com>, "'Elliotte Harold'" <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>
  • Cc: xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org, 'Alex Blewitt' <alex_blewitt AT yahoo.com>
  • Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] Tab support for nu.xom.Serializer?
  • Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 13:59:40 +0100

> Slightly off topic, but can you please elaborate on that? I see only
> benefits to using tabs instead of spaces. I'm interested in
> the trouble you
> think it causes.

Elliotte is right, as usual. The effect of a tab is context dependent, which
makes it very unmanageable. It was a really bad idea to allow tabs to be
stored in files at all - a tab was originally a key on a keyboard that
caused a number of spaces to appear in the document, and it should have
stayed that way.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/






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