On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 08:07:35PM +0000, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 02:19:02PM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote: > > > For personal pet projects, I use 2 spaces per nesting level. Some people > > think that's Pure Evil(tm), > > Most noteably perhaps, Linus Torvalds, although... > > >although I fully agree with you about wasting > > screen real estate in 80 columns (yes, I am one of those freaks who insist > > that all code must not have lines longer than 79 characters). > > ...he agrees with you on that point! > > Torvalds' position is that code that cannot be expressed using > 8-spaces-per-indent and wrap at 79 characters needs to be rewritten. [snip]
That would mean 95% of non-trivial XSLT stylesheets would need to be rewritten... (Sorry, I'm just bitter after having to deal with non-trivial text-processing in XSLT. Don't try this at home without life insurance.) T -- Curiosity kills the cat. Moral: don't be the cat.