On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 06:17:58 -0400, spir <denis.s...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 04/11/2011 07:51 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
the only way that tabs work is if you use them consistently, which in my
experience almost never happens. And
How so? If you probably set your editor, inconsistency simply cannot
happen... The same is true for using spaces, anyway.
Don't want to get too much into this obviously polarized debate, but in my
experience, people vary as much as editors. And editors vary quite a bit.
In most of the editors I use, the default is to use spaces for
indentation. So what happens is someone opens a file that uses tabs for
indentation, then adds some lines. However, their editor only uses spaces
*for those lines they added*, which results in a hybrid. However, the
person editing doesn't notice because it all lines up on their screen.
You may have philosophical objections to all of this, but this answers
your question straightforwardly -- it happens, all the time, and this is
how.
The easiest rule to follow is -- always use spaces to indent. Almost all
editors support this (and are set to this by default). Almost all editors
provide some sort of auto-indentation, or some command to indent a
highlighted section of code. The "oh crap, now I have to go back through
and convert tabs to spaces" argument just isn't valid anymore.
-Steve
