Yup, it looks wrong. But it would look even more wrong, if anything, with only spaces; you CANNOT line stuff out in a non-monospaced font, period. Except with tabs, but if you do that, you're dependent on tab stops, which is a big nono. Which brings us back to: It is not possible to line stuff out unless you have a monospaced font. Period. Personally I never line stuff out, but I can see why some folks do. At any rate, it's as much an argument against spaces only as proper tabs.
On Jun 29, 3:17 pm, Wildam Martin <mwil...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 14:41, Reinier Zwitserloot <reini...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I don't understand the tabs v. spaces war. There's clearly a right > > answer: > > Tabs for indents. Spaces for spacing. > > I fully agree with you and I just wanted to copy your rules to a text > file for later reference when I am in discussion with people - and > guess what: > > What happens to your sample is something like this: > private int x = 10, > y = 20; > > So I would say, you are fully right, but editors might handle it wrong > - especially when somebody might copy a code to from a web forum page > etc. > > Maybe this is where the war starts: Those who follow your rules and > those who want to work around common issues by using just spaces or > so. > -- > Martin Wildam -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
