Mark Hobson wrote: > Should you change to spaces, it's a pain to change back to tabs - I > personally prefer tabs at 5 spaces (and in vi - around 8 spaces) - and using > Tab/Shift+Tab is a lifesaver. Whenever I open code with spaces, the first > thing I have to do is change the spaces to tabs.
This isn't directed at you personally, you just got lucky in being the proverbial straw. <rant> There isn't any reason for these discussions on style or formatting! There are any number of programs that will automatically and reliably re-style and re-format a program in whatever way you want. Instead of trying to convince people to use "the one true path" we should be focusing on getting people to use these programs. I realize that this causes problems for version control systems (e.g., a reformatted program loses annotation in cvs) but there are ways to handle even this. </rant> /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
