At the risk of causing some whitespace holy war, I would actually secont that sentiment.
I am actually rather surprised at the level of dislike for a tab character among this crowd, because this tab character fits really well into the semantics of nesting/indentation. You can express a level of indentation with a single character and adjust the actual visual representation of the indentation depth at the editor/IDE level. Also - if everyone used tab for indentation, it would open up elastic tabstops <http://nickgravgaard.com/elastictabstops/> and opening up. Also, to throw it out here, I just stumbled upon a pretty neat idea talking about sidestepping the whole *tabs vs spaces* discussion by using a word processor<http://daniel.lanovaz.org/Site/Blog/Entries/2004/10/31_Thinking_with_Style.html>for writing code instead. Quite bold proposal, I would say... kolmapäev, 18. mai 2011 9:56.33 UTC+3 kirjutas Casper Bang: > > > (anyone who mentions they use tabs, please line up against the back wall) > > > Bah if everyone just used a tab to signify a logical indentation > level, your whole question becomes pointless - think about it for a > second. Indentation should be about expressing semantics on screen, > not act as a space macro in the AST. I usually render one indentation > as 4 spaces. -- 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.
