> -----Original Message----- > From: Ingmar Stein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Slightly offtopic, but what is the advantage of spaces over tabs? > With tabs, you can specifiy the amout of indentation yourself > (some prefer > 8 characters, some only 1) thus you don't have to adapt to > the original author's indentation style. > Also, tabs make the files smaller as they're only a single > character instead of > 1-8. Okay, this is a minor point, but I think tabs are much > more useful than > spaces > for indentation. I agree with you. It does not matter especially for Java files that are compiled once but is a different thing for xsl or xml, the file can easily be twice the size. The argument for space instead of tabs is because of cvs diff/commit that makes it somewhat unreadable. Stephane
