Re: PDD 2nd go: Conventions and Guidelines for Perl Source Code

[Abhijit Menon-Sen]

On 2001-05-29 18:25:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> The following I<must> apply:
> 
> =over 4
> 
> =item *
> 
> 8-wide tabs
> 
> =item *
> 
> 4-wide indents for code, 2-wide indents for nested CPP #directives

Please don't *require* the use of literal TABs (8 characters wide) to
achieve 4-character indentation. In practice, this leads to ugly diffs
and a completely unpredictable mixture of ^Is and spaces in the source.

Either use 4 spaces everywhere, or use TABs for 8-character indentation
(as the Linux kernel does). Please, don't mix the two.

> Developer files
> 
> For each source file (eg a F<foo.c> F<foo.h> pair), there should be an
> accompanying developer file called F<foo.dev>.

(Perhaps these .dev files should be /doc/devel/*.txt instead?)

- ams