Re: Tabs and spaces

[Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:46, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 05:25, Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 12:15 AM, Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Oh, I still think a tabstop of 2 is insane (for various reasons, some
>>>> explained in the thread you mentioned).
>>>
>> tabstop of 2 is what we use on Chromium code (with spaces, no tabs).
>
> It's indentation. You indent your code by 2 space.
> It has nothing to do with tabstop.

In this discussion, it has everything to do with the tabstops
(1235e29d-6cbb-445b-9b6f-4e174c03ba8f-mfwitten@gmail.com):

> Again, it should be recognized that there are 2 issues:
>
>        * Indentation : This *can* be implemented with tabs
>        * Alignment   : This *should* be implemented with only spaces
>
> and it should also be recognized that treating tabs as a primitive
> means of space-saving compression by having it always represent
> some constant number of spaces (8) is just as flaky as expecting
> people to properly use spaces for alignment; thus you might as
> well go for the latter in order to get the best of both worlds,
> because somebody is going to mess it up either way.