On Wed, 29 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 29 May 2002, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote: > > > There no need to agree -- tabs are 8 spaces by definition. It's standard. > > There's no need to agree because everyone should be using hard tabs (ASCII > 9, \t, whatever you want to call it). Every editor on the face of the > planet knows how to make these appear as however many spaces the user > wants. So I can see the code with indentation size 8, and you can see it > with 4, or 2, or 160, or whatever. > > After the first non-whitespace character on a line, spaces should be used, > since at that point, different numbers of hard tabs would be needed to get > text on succeeding lines to be at the same column. > > Since I've never contributed to Wine, I'm perfectly happy if everyone > ignores my opinion on this, but I felt the need to combat the insanity of > using spaces for indentation :-)
Absolutely. If you use \t, then anyone looking at the code can choose the size of indents. I *despise* space-based indenting, almost as much as I despise mixed indenting (eg. 4-space indenting with every pair of 4-space indents being converted into a single tab). As you point out, a good discipline on the use of tabs does pretty much cater to everyone's tastes. However you can't assume that using spaces after the first non-whitespace character will ensure arbitrary column alignment (eg. for end-of-line comments). At least not between lines that have differing indentation. Cheers, Geoff
