I would like to think that the true holy war nature of tabs vs spaces is because of the significance of tabs in some languages. Well, really, only Make. Because, otherwise, if you just set your tabstop to 4 spaces you are likely to only notice that tabs are present if you are looking for them.
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Fabrizio Giudici < fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it> wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:17:52 +0100, Rakesh <rakesh.mailgro...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Isn't this a bit like King Knut? >> >> I've seen soo much code over the years, much of it legacy, to think this >> is >> a problem worth solving. If I worked extensively in one codebase and never >> saw anyone else's code including open source code from outside my >> organisation, then maybe I would be sensitive to this. >> > > It's a matter of consistency. In a good team, you shouldn't be able to > tell who's the author of a file. Consider the mess that would turn out in a > project where there's a high turnover rate of external consultants. > > This of course involved even things much more important than formatting, > but also formatting. Also because it's simple to align on a standard and > relatively simple to enforce it. > > > > -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect @ Tidalwave s.a.s. > "We make Java work. Everywhere." > http://tidalwave.it/fabrizio/**blog <http://tidalwave.it/fabrizio/blog> - > fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscribe@** > googlegroups.com <javaposse%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > Visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/**group/javaposse?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en> > . > For more options, visit > https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> > . > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
