At 09:26 PM 7/16/01 +1000, Mark wrote:
> As an aside: is there a style guide for FOP code? I must say I find the
>style and layout very confusing and I'm happy to clean things up as I go.
>At the moment I can't even work out what tab stop size people are using.
>(In my own work I use 8 character tabs with 2 character indenting).
Yep. http://xml.apache.org/source.html references the Sun Java coding
conventions, at http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/html/CodeConvTOC.doc.html.
An interesting point that comes out of the coding conventions is that while
Sun instructs us that tabs must be 8 spaces, they also state that the unit
of indentation is 4 spaces.
Seems to me that the easiest way to avoid problems is never to leave tabs in
the code - I use a text editor that is set to 4 spaces per tab and
immediately translates tabs to spaces.
We are well past the point where we should take a style tool to the whole
codebase, strip out all tabs, and re-commit the whole thing. :-)
Regards,
Arved Sandstrom
Fairly Senior Software Type
e-plicity (http://www.e-plicity.com)
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