Re: Indention - why spaces?

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>]

Em Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 07:53:22PM +0100, Emiliano Gabrielli escreveu:
> 
> <quote who="Dave Jones">
> > On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 12:49:33PM +0000, John Bradford wrote:
> >  > > Well, I disagree: http://www.wiggy.net/rants/tabsvsspaces.xhtml
> >  > In my opinion, indentation in any form is irritating.
> >
> > The devfs source code is --> that way.
> >
> 
> IMHO and in my personal projects I use the following indenting rules:
> 
> 1) use TABs for _indentation_
> 2) use SPACEs for aligning
> 
> here is an exaple:
> 
> <tab><tab>if (cond) {
> <tab><tab><tab>dosometing;
> <tab><tab><tab>printf("This is foo: '%s', and this bar: '%d'",
> <tab><tab><tab>       foo, bar);
> 
> where tabs are explicitated, while spaces not.
> 
> 
> I think this way combines both tab and spaces advantages, allowing each coder
> to have its own indentation width, but NEVER destroing the aspect of the code.
> 
> This is only my opinion :-P

I second that.

- Arnaldo