> Now to the coding style. I can probably adjust to any style adopted as > standard, but pretty please forget about using spaces for indentation. > Isn't it obvious, that indentation is a higher level abstraction and > thus should be indicated in other ways (meaning tabs, of course)? > Besides, I can't imagine anyone counting the 12 spaces for the 3rd > indentation level. I assume they would just press tab and their > editors would do the rest. But then you can configure almost any > editor to display tabs in whatever size you are comfortable with. I > can't see any drawbacks in this.
I won't use tabs, and remove them wherever I see them. If you are developing code where you are the only person coding, then go ahead and use them. But when multiple people use tabs or spaces in different editors, with different tab sizes, and tabs converted to spaces in different ways, it's a horrible mess. In the real world, tabs are a bad idea. With modern editors, you can configure the tab key and autoindentation to work very well generating only spaces - and what you see is what you get. Tabs are invisible and look like spaces to the eye, unless you cursor through them. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
