On 05/01/14 01:04, Tim Hill wrote: [...] >> Aside from that, does anyone remember the origin of this 3-space >> indentation convention? I *think* it came from Visual Basic --- that's certainly where I first encountered it, back in the Win3.1 days. But I don't remember whether it got it from QuickBasic (back in the DOS days); I found a copy of gorilla.bas and it uses two-space indentation. I'm afraid the VB connection means that three-space indentation is irrecoverably tainted with evil and must be abandoned forthwith. (FWIW, I've never encountered the three-space Lua standard before.) -- ┌─── ｄｇ＠ｃｏｗｌａｒｋ．ｃｏｍ ───── http://www.cowlark.com ───── │ "There does not now, nor will there ever, exist a programming │ language in which it is the least bit hard to write bad programs." --- │ Flon's Axiom
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