On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 12:08:33PM -0400, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote: > On May 29, 2002 11:59 am, Geoff Thorpe wrote: > > 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). > > Sorry, this does not work. People _will_ use spaces, and so having the tab > at anything other than 8 is simply silly. The tab (\t) _is_ 8 spaces. Period. > If we are to have anything decent, we should decide (at least as a > recommendation) on an indentation size. From looking at the code, 4 seems > to be the norm. Let's pick that. Yep, I'm also pro 4 spaces :-) *If* we decide to use 4 spaces, then we might also want to decide whether to abolish tab-based "double 4" or "quattro 4" replacements or not. Or, in other words: whether we want to have all indentations based on spaces, instead of also using \t where it fits into the current indentation level.
Oh, and of course I'm all for *not* making this decision too obligatory. (unless someone comes up with some completely wild indentation, that is ;) -- Andreas Mohr Stauferstr. 6, D-71272 Renningen, Germany Tel. +49 7159 800604 http://mohr.de.tt
