On 6/3/06, Stephen Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>"Tabs are not forbidden but discouraged. A tab is defined as 8
>characters and the usual amount of indentation is 4 characters."
>
>
A tab is not defined as 8 spaces - it is defined as go to the next TAB
STOP! The tab stop
could be every 8 spaces or 4 spaces or 2 spaces or whatever has been
defined. The tab
comes from the manual typewriter and there were physical stops you
placed where
you wanted the carriage to stop at.
You misinterpreted the quote. "A tab is defined as 8 characters"
means that when you're editing Wine code that has tabs in it, you
should set your editor to display tabs as 8 spaces so that we all see
the same indention from a tab.
--
James Hawkins
