I concede that spaces are more consistent across tools, although I stand by my assertion that tabs can be more customizable to individual preferences. Thus, I withdraw my previous vote and replace it with:
+1 tabs +1 spaces +1 consistent formatting Adam On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Keith Turner <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Adam Fuchs <[email protected]> wrote: > > +1 for consistent formatting. > > +1 for tabs. > > -1 for spaces. > > > > Tabs are nice because everyone can choose their own look and feel (i.e. I > > don't have to look at 2-space indenting!). > > > > I would like to get to make a decision and reformat the existing code > ASAP. I was undecided this morning, I did not think there was a clear > advantage to one or the other. We were discussing the pros and cons. > It seems the main pro w/ spaces, is consistency. The code looks the > same everywhere (in less, vim, eclipse, code coverage tool, notepad, > etc). With tabs, each one of these tools would need to be configured > by the user to achieve consistency. The pro w/ tabs is that each user > can make the code look how they like. I like the idea of a consistent > look in all tools and being able to modify the tab stop is not > important to me, I will get used to whatever we decide to go with. > > +1 for spaces (using hadoop formatting style) > -1 for tabs > > Keith >
