On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 02:25:35PM -0600, Stuart Jansen wrote: > On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 12:51 -0600, Lonnie Olson wrote: > > P.S. The Tab character was created for a reason. It is cleaner, > > and fulfills it's purpose well. > > Yes, but misguided souls insist on changing the width of a tab. As > all right thinking persions know, the One True Tabwidth(tm) is 8 > characters.
Amen, and Amen. More people should adopt the Linux kernel coding standards: http://www.adamspiers.org/computing/Linus-Kernel-CodingStyle 80 columns max. 8-space tabs. If your code starts looking ugly under those constraints, you're probably writing bad code. From the doc: --- Now, some people will claim that having 8-character indentations makes the code move too far to the right, and makes it hard to read on a 80-character terminal screen. The answer to that is that if you need more than 3 levels of indentation, you're screwed anyway, and should fix your program. --- Mike .___________________________________________________________________. Michael A. Halcrow Security Software Engineer, IBM Linux Technology Center GnuPG Fingerprint: 419C 5B1E 948A FA73 A54C 20F5 DB40 8531 6DCA 8769 "Aristotelian ethics, Aristotelian definitions, Aristotelian logic, Aristotelian forms, Aristotelian substances, Aristotelian rhetoric, Aristotelian laughter... ha-ha, ha-ha." - Robert Pirsig
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