Re: Indention - why spaces?

[Herman Oosthuysen <Herman@WirelessNetworksInc.com>]

This problem is as old as the typewriter itself.  The trouble is that a 
Tab character doesn't have a fixed size - some set it to 3 characters 
wide, some to 4 some to 8, or whatever.

The 'indent' program was written a couple of decades ago, to pretty 
print C code.  It has a 'GNU' standard, but I'm not aware of a 'Linux' 
standard.  Anyhoo, the only way to prevent indentation wars is to use 
spaces, not tabs and to set 'diff' to ignore white space when comparing 
files...

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> 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
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