It's a red herring argument. You need to see the whitespace characters to see if some twit has not used wrong convention for indentation. No matter what is the indentation style of your choice - it can get horribly wrong either way..
I think the Tabs vs Spaces argument is moot for the very simple and easy reason -- Just pick one and stick with it. As long as everyone uses the same convention, everything is okay. And for the record - given the choice I prefer using tabs for indentation. My argument is that semantics of Tab is more suitable for indentation than space. To be fair - I would very much like to work with an IDE that supported "elastic tabs": http://nickgravgaard.com/elastictabstops/ On 2 juuli, 11:36, "Vince O'Sullivan" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jun 30, 2:04 am, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote: > > > In eclipse I always have 'show formatting characters' on. > > > That makes spaces and tabs not so invisible. > > The fact that you need to turn off whitespace, in order to keep track > of your "whitespace", is a pretty strong case against the technique. -- 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.
