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Kenneth Porter writes: > --On Tuesday, February 10, 2004 2:30 PM -0800 Justin Mason <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >> > We generally (about 54-59% of our perl code) collapse each set of 8 > >> > leading spaces into a tab. > >> > >> Uh, no, please not. That's one thing I always "fix" when I see it (I > >> never had the idea this might be intentional -- to me it was just some > >> annoying behaviour of some editors, incuding vim). Either always use > >> tabs or always use two spaces, but don't mix-and-match. > > > > That'd be me ;) I prefer tabs for 8 leading spaces. > > Any strong reason to use tabs? They made sense when disk space was scarce, > source was distributed uncompressed, and all terminals and printers ran at > low bit rates and agreed on tab stops. Now every editor seems to have a > different idea of what a tab is, and no one uses output devices with really > slow feeds. So what's left to justify indenting with actual tab characters? No, no particular reason. It just seems wasteful to use 8 bytes where 1 will do. Also, vim does it by default ;) - --j. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh CVS iD8DBQFAKWqnQTcbUG5Y7woRAjR0AKCHZ+19CB+5sRvPEB9v5GpkQEgdIQCg08kR Bt1UDAVa9AlZhSAnTcjrie4= =ztm/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
