Am 11.04.2011 07:51, schrieb Jonathan M Davis: >> Nick Sabalausky: >>> What, so that he can force his indentation size on everyone else that >>> works on the code? Or so that using the left/right arrow keys within the >>> indentation zone requires an unnessesaraly large number of keypresses? >> >> It's a module theoretically meant for Phobos, and the Phobos coding >> standard are spaces. > > Yes. Phobos follows the convention of indenting with spaces and that levels > of > indentation are 4 spaces. So, anything which goes into Phobos needs to follow > this convention. > > the only way that tabs work is if you use them consistently, which in my > experience almost never happens.
How can people mess that up? > And pretty much everywhere that I've worked > has required that spaces be used and no tabs. When people _have_ used tabs, > it's been a mess. Personally, I'm completely against using tabs in source > code. > > Regardless, Phobos doesn't use tabs. So, whatever someone may prefer in their > own code, code that they intend to get into Phobos shouldn't use tabs. > > - Jonathan M Davis Of course there's always the possibility to use a code-beautifier to fix this when you're done writing, like http://uncrustify.sourceforge.net/ which even officially supports D. Cheers, - Daniel
