+1
On Feb 1, 2007, at 1:52 AM, Craig L Russell wrote:
I've been through these wars a number of times and it seems that
tabs just get in the way of productivity. If you want everything to
look good and indent 4 spaces, then the usual tab 8 doesn't work,
even though that's the standard tab. And then you end up with a
mixture of tabs and spaces in each file, so everyone changes to 4
space tabs but then people with no tab settings in their editor see
that there is no spacing at all and put in 4 tabs thinking that
this will fix things and then no one is happy.
I think 4 space indentation and no tabs seems to be a universal
solvent. At least very few people object strongly to it.
Craig
On Jan 31, 2007, at 8:13 PM, Bill Venners wrote:
Hi Gregg,
You realize of course this means war. I'm all for a style
standard, so long as it is 4 *spaces* for each level of indentation.
Actually, I usually have no problem adapting to whatever the style
is of the project I'm working on, but at home, at Artima, we use
four spaces to indent Java.
Bill
On Jan 31, 2007, at 7:43 PM, Gregg Wonderly wrote:
Jim Hurley wrote:
If ya'll think this (organization) is a good idea -- I'd
like to agree on the initial list, where to put it, and
how best to attack it. Let me know what you think.
One issue that I'd like to bring up, but which may create a lot
of disagreement is the whitespace usage in the JTSK sources. I'd
like, at some point, for all lines of code to have leading tabs
only. Everyone seems to like different whitespace/columns for
indentation and tabs only seems to provide the most flexability.
It means that diffs have to be generated with -b, or in some way
which removes whitespace from consideration for any updates
people submit between the old code and their current code.
Am I just retentive about this issue, or does anyone else have
some problems poping the source up in an editor/ide with
something besides 8 char tabs?
Gregg Wonderly
Craig Russell
Architect, Sun Java Enterprise System http://java.sun.com/products/jdo
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