Then there's no problem with tabs either.
Alexey
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From: Ricky Clarkson <ricky.clark...@gmail.com>
To: javaposse@googlegroups.com
Sent: Wed, May 18, 2011 12:13:09 PM
Subject: Re: [The Java Posse] Vs: Re: How many characters do you use for
indention?
It'll get reformatted.
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On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Alexey Zinger <inline_f...@yahoo.com> wrote:
So what happens if you accept someone else's code, who was using the "wrong"
number of spaces for indent and mix it with your code?
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> Alexey
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From: Ricky Clarkson <ricky.clark...@gmail.com>
>To: javaposse@googlegroups.com
>Sent: Wed, May 18, 2011 6:44:06 AM
>Subject: Re: [The Java Posse] Vs: Re: How many characters do you use for
>indention?
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>The problem is that if you, accidentally or otherwise, end up with a mixture
>of
>tabs and spaces for indentation, people with different tab sizes set see your
>code as spaghetti.
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>It's easier to write a rule that detects and rejects tabs than it is to detect
>a
>bad mixture of tabs and spaces. In the latter, what would happen with:
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>< tab >int[] x = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
>< tab > 6, 7, 8, 9, 10};
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>On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 6:45 AM, Roland Tepp <luol...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> At the risk of causing some whitespace holy war, I would actually secont
>> that sentiment.
>>
>> I am actually rather surprised at the level of dislike for a tab character
>> among this crowd, because this tab character fits really well into the
>> semantics of nesting/indentation. You can express a level of indentation
>> with a single character and adjust the actual visual representation of the
>> indentation depth at the editor/IDE level.
>>
>> Also - if everyone used tab for indentation, it would open up elastic
>> tabstops and opening up.
>> Also, to throw it out here, I just stumbled upon a pretty neat idea talking
>> about sidestepping the whole tabs vs spaces discussion by using a word
>> processor for writing code instead. Quite bold proposal, I would say...
>>
>> kolmapäev, 18. mai 2011 9:56.33 UTC+3 kirjutas Casper Bang:
>>>
>>> > (anyone who mentions they use tabs, please line up against the back
>>> > wall)
>>>
>>> Bah if everyone just used a tab to signify a logical indentation
>>> level, your whole question becomes pointless - think about it for a
>>> second. Indentation should be about expressing semantics on screen,
>>> not act as a space macro in the AST. I usually render one indentation
>>> as 4 spaces.
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