On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 1:38 AM, Christopher Sean Morrison <brl...@mac.com>
wrote:
> Au contraire. :)
>
> It was simply a compromise decision prior to going open source, a balance
> of compression (tabs) with fixed presentation (spaces), quite effectively
> avoiding bike-shed debates. When a codebase survives authors (by decades),
> it’s more important that the code be consistent.
> ...
> Since then, there’s been consensus that switching to tabs would be fine.
> That'll should happen after astyle enforcement gets turned on (so style
> errors result in compile failures), which is real-soon-now.
>
Sacrilege!
*vasc hugs his The C Programming Language Book*
--
Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa
PhD in Computer Engineering (Computer Graphics)
Instituto Superior Técnico/University of Lisbon, Portugal
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