On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, "Gregory Hill" wrote:
I've tried doing 4-space, and 2-space tabs, spaces instead of tabs, etc.
I think I'm going to go back to tab characters. It makes the file
smaller, and whoever reads the code can see it however they want to see
it by setting their own tab-stops. I never understood why people are so
anal about formatting; I can't recall ever being inhibited in reading
someone's code based on how many spaces they use and where they put the
brackets.
I've also decided that the whole tabs/spaces argument is pretty pointless.
Both camps agree that you should use spaces for alignment (if you don't
agree, I'll happily spend several long rants convincing you), so no matter
which you use for indentation, any editor should be able to trivially turn
one into the other for viewing, and reverse the process for saving (so
that CVS or whatever you're using doesn't whine about all the changed
whitespace).
The only peeve I have is when files contain *both* tabs and spaces for
indentation. Ewwww.
~ Ross
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