It's easier to screw up formatting when incorporating code that uses tabs, because you might not realise it uses tabs. Only the person who uses a different tab size to your editor might realise.
-- Skype: ricky_clarkson UK phone (forwards to Skype): 0161 408 5260 On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Alexey Zinger <[email protected]>wrote: > Then there's no problem with tabs either. > > Alexey > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Ricky Clarkson <[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Wed, May 18, 2011 12:13:09 PM > > *Subject:* Re: [The Java Posse] Vs: Re: How many characters do you use for > indention? > > It'll get reformatted. > > -- > Skype: ricky_clarkson > UK phone (forwards to Skype): 0161 408 5260 > > > > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Alexey Zinger <[email protected]>wrote: > >> So what happens if you accept someone else's code, who was using the >> "wrong" number of spaces for indent and mix it with your code? >> >> Alexey >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* Ricky Clarkson <[email protected]> >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Sent:* Wed, May 18, 2011 6:44:06 AM >> *Subject:* Re: [The Java Posse] Vs: Re: How many characters do you use >> for indention? >> >> The problem is that if you, accidentally or otherwise, end up with a >> mixture of tabs and spaces for indentation, people with different tab sizes >> set see your code as spaghetti. >> >> 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}; >> >> -- >> Skype: ricky_clarkson >> UK phone (forwards to Skype): 0161 408 5260 >> >> >> >> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 6:45 AM, Roland Tepp <[email protected]> wrote: >> > 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 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 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. >> > >> >> -- >> 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. >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > -- > 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. > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
