On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Mark Volkmann <[email protected]>wrote:
> I'm surprised that all the replies to this thread are in favor of tabs > over spaces. In my experience, the vast majority of developers favor > spaces. For me there is one main reason I prefer spaces ... printers. > Sometimes I print code. Printers seem to always use eight spaces for > tabs which causes many lines to wrap and makes it harder to read the > code. If there were a universal way to adjust that then I'd be okay > with using tabs for indentation. > Print code? Isn't that the modern equivalent to chisel code onto stone tablets? > > This is the same reason why I don't like when lines are longer than 80 > characters. Many of the lines will wrap when printed. Also, I find it > harder to read code with long lines. That's why newspaper columns > don't extend all the way across wide newspaper pages. > > -- > R. Mark Volkmann > Object Computing, Inc. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- Viktor Klang | "A complex system that works is invariably | found to have evolved from a simple system | that worked." - John Gall Akka - the Actor Kernel: Akkasource.org Twttr: twitter.com/viktorklang -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
