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Tue Feb 13 01:26:10 CET 2007 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-February/071005.html

On Tuesday 13 February 2007 10:10, Ben North wrote:
>  (Gently wandering off-topic,
> but: do people use proportional fonts for coding?  Doesn't it
> cause general awkwardness for indentation, especially relevant
> for python?)

The killer problem with backticks (to pick the syntax that currently 
causes this problem the most) is with webpages and with printed 
books with code. Sure, everyone can pick a font for coding that 
they can read, but that's not the only way you read code. This is 
my issue with the foo.(bar) syntax. The period is far far too small 
and easy to miss.

-- 
Anthony Baxter     <anthony at interlink.com.au>
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

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