Roland Mainz writes: > * Be carefull with using TABS in script code, they are not portable > between editors or platforms
Could you clarify this one, please? Are you referring to the ASCII TAB (0x09) character? If so, what's not "portable" about it? Are you hinting at the people who misconfigure their editors away from the Right And True 8-character tab stops to something bizarre such as 4-character? If so, I don't think this bit of advice works here, at least for ON in OpenSolaris. In all other places in our code, we assume 8-character tab stops -- and quite intentionally, as code that needs smaller indents is typically badly written and likely unmaintainable anyway. Perhaps avoiding tabs is reasonable advice for folks writing scripts that will be taken away to more hostile environs (Linux? Windows?), but I don't think it's right for us. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
