On 2002.11.11, Peter M. Jansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Indentation, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder (which, I
> think, was part of your point about the flexibility of using tabs
> rather than spaces).

Exactly my point.  Using spaces for indentation makes indenting an
author-only choice.  Using tabs makes indentation a reader-specific
choice.

When it comes to code-readability, it should be easy to format the code
that's easiest for the reader to read.  For poorly formatted code (that
which uses spaces isntead of tabs) I can easily whack ":1^M=G" in vim
and have it re-indent everything for me the way I like.  It's just a
pity that if the code needs to be shared, I have to go make edits
against the original, un-reformatted file.

Anyway, it's all a matter of preference and the decision is entirely
arbitrary.

-- Dossy

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Dossy Shiobara                       mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Panoptic Computer Network             web: http://www.panoptic.com/
  "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
    folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)

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