> -----Original Message----- > From: Dimitrie O. Paun [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 10:04 AM > To: Medland, Bill; Wine devel (E-mail) > Subject: Re: Coding standards > > > On November 27, 2002 12:45 pm, Medland, Bill wrote: > > which is what I hate. This is the worst of both worlds. > Either use Tabs > > throughout so that a tab equals an indent and so people can > set the tab > > size to whatever they like or else don't use tabs at all > and use explicit > > spaces. > > And what's so bad about mixing spaces and tabs? Using only tabs is > (1) hard/impossible to enforce, and (2) still suffers from deviation > from the standard. It maybe workable in a company, but not on the > internet. > > On the other hand, what's the big deal with mixing tabs and spaces? > What's the big loss as compared to only spaces? This is just trying > to impose (silly) policy on people. As long as we stick to the > standard meaning of tab (which is 8, there's no question about it. > What do you get when you send a file to the printer? Or open it in > a non-customized editor?), there is no need whatsoever to force > people into this or that way. And this without a loss for anyone! > > Why do people feel a need to force others into certain way of doing > things, when the end result is the same?!? This is like forcing > people to QWERTY instead of DVORAK... I'm not against standards, > I would actually like if we had more uniform looking code, but this > is really unnecessary, as it serves no purpose. > > -- > Dimi. > Sorry if you thought I wanted to force people to do something "my way"; that is far from the truth. Personally I work hard at using four space indent and no tabs at all. (I have experience of working with a lot of code maintained by some people who work with a four-space tab and some who work with 8 and so am fed up with having to keep swapping between two settings. Therefore I try and avoid tabs.) However my own opinion is that one should fit in with the existing local conventions.
You are right; provided everyone sticks to 8-space tabs then it doesn't matter. But if one only uses spaces then it doesn't matter one way or the other. I merely offer this as a suggestion for people to consider. Bill
