These guys have enough to do. I feel bad mentioning what I consider a
"real" problem. They could just join and compress all the lines and let
everyone figure it out.
There are a lot of annoying ways to code, but I see nothing wrong with
theirs. I certainly don't waste time counting tabs and spaces when I'm
coding unless I have nothing else to do; and if I had the time to do that
with other peoples scripts I would be out looking for a life.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Fraser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, 23 August, 2000 10:49
Subject: RE: Impassioned Plea on Code Style
>
> i did not want to add to this thread because it seems to be going nowhere,
but it seems necessary to point out that it is only common sense and
courtesy to other programmers to use CONSISTENT spacing.
>
> be that 4 spaces, 8 spaces, 2 spaces, 1 tab or whatever, choose your
indentation and stick with it! -- and above all else, do not mix tabs and
spaces!
>
> it is foolish to assume that one editor will treat tabs the same as
another .. even the same editor on a different machine may treat tabs
entirely different; everyone likes to have their tabs set to their own
special widths and forcing them to change it to match yours is a good way to
annoy people. (as this thread so plainly shows)
>
> -s.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steven Fletcher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, 23. August 2000 06:00
> > To: 'Joe Rhett'
> > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> > Subject: RE: Impassioned Plea on Code Style
> >
> >
> > FWIW, I agree. I use the rather wonderful TextPad when in
> > Windows which give
> > me the option to indent things on a per-doctype basis - I'm
> > no expert on
> > Unix editors in general but I'm pretty sure that they can do
> > similar stuff
> > too.
> >
> > I'm personally used to seeing things indented by 8*X columns,
> > not (as is the
> > case with some of the opensrs code) 8 and then 4 spaces.
> >
> > --
> > Steven Fletcher
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > > No... tab settings are specific to the editor. In the file,
> > > it's just a tab.
> > > 1 character. How it displays a preference of the user.
> >
> >
>
>
