Wouter van Vliet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > fan of tabs. For what I read about the coding conventions, the reason to use > spaces over tabs was mainly because a lot of folks use a lot of different > settings "tabsize" which results in different views of the same thing. On > it's turn, that results in folks changing the tabs to make it look better > (or more likely: having some formatter ready to do it for them). On every > machine, a space has the same size and thus 2 spaces are always of te same > lenght. Namely the lenght of a normal character. >
Yes, but we could agree on indenting with tabs, everybody can set her own tab-length. The trouble with java-code-conventions is that they required the tab-length to be 8, while indenting should occur with 4, resulting in a completely idiotic situation, in which you can as well use no tabs at all (so we made mmbase code-conventions a bit stricter: no tabs, 4 spaces, which is compatible with java-code-conventions, because they don't specify when to use tabs) For XML we would not be required to have such a stupid convention, so we could think something up. I slightly prefer spaces because it's more similar to java-code-conventions then, and easier when I'm forced to use unfamiliar editor (vi) on server. Michiel -- Michiel Meeuwissen Mediapark C101 Hilversum +31 (0)35 6772979 nl_NL eo_XX en_US mihxil' [] ()
