Then you end up with, say:

< tab >int[] x = {
< tab >< tab >1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
< tab >< tab >6, 7, 8, 9, 10
};

which you can probably see promotes the structure of the code over its
actual content.  I used to think the same, but spending a while in a locked
room with lisp cured me.

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On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote:

> > It's easier to write a rule that detects and rejects tabs than it is to
> > detect a bad mixture of tabs and spaces.  In the latter, what would
> happen
> > with:
> >
> > < tab >int[] x = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
> > < tab >           6, 7, 8, 9, 10};
>
> I would argue, that space characters has no place after a linebreak.
> They should only be used between tokens within a line. NetBeans 7.0
> *finally* got soft linebreaks, so the kind of artistic hard linebreaks
> as shown above, is no longer necessary. Let a person with a 27"
> monitor take full advantage of his screen.
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