On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]>wrote:
> Indeed, it is very related. In that it's stupid. There's great value > in debating which style is best, but once the pros and cons are > weighed, there's far more benefit in everyone standardizing on the > same thing than everyone going off and doing their own thing. That's > all *IF* there is no real benefit in having multiple styles. I'll > gladly go on record to say that there is absolutely no point > whatsoever in having both tab-indent and space-indent around as > styles. > > It sounds like we are almost in violent agreement. The main difference is that I don't even cede that there is an advantage to abolishing tabs or spaces. In my editors of choice, both can live quite happily. In fact, it is only annoying when I see someone's editor made to flag the one they don't like with a hideous marking. (I will gladly say that I have grown distrustful of any language where there is a semantic difference between tabs and spaces.) So, I think I agree with your reasoning. I just haven't seen a "codified style" that actually does away with mistakes. :) Are there any examples? I offered "literate programming" as a practice within languages that produces elegant results. Sadly, I don't know as that that can be codified. -- 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.
