I rarely have violent visceral reactions to things. But I have a few hotbuttons, and here's one of them. Quoting from Joel Spolsky's summary :

Nick Gravgaard : "Ratherthan saying that a tab character (a "hard tab") will move the cursoruntil the cursor's position is a multiple of N characters, we shouldsay that a tab character is a delimiter between table cells..."

Wrong. Wrong wrong wrong. The core wrongness is visible in a singleline

A while back I wrote about emulating C structs in Python using (instance) objects to createnamespaces, and wrote:

(Avoid the temptation to just use ' ms = object() ', because ithurts your ability to tell different types of structs apart viaintrospection.)

It turns out that there is another reason to avoid this: it doesn'twork. Somewhat to my surprise, instances of object() can't have newattributes put on them. (Instances of Python subclasses of object(