On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 at 11:43 -0600, Alan Young wrote: > > My point, though, is that arguing over something that is easily > changeable and customizable is a pointless waste of time and energy.
I argue that whitespace has meaning in good code (on the same plane as comments, not for the compiler). It's not like XML. You may argue that it's better to not include any whitespace with meaning, but others will disagree. When whitespace has meaning, pretty printers fail. I also have failed to find a decent formatter for C++, let along many other less-popular languages. People have ranted about mixing spaces and tabs. Yes, very bad. Someone mentioned something that I'd like to address here lazily without going back and replying to it properly. Hey, at least I trim-posted. If your editor doesn't let you type tab and get 4 spaces, then type backspace and get 4 fewer spaces, get a new editor. I have a recommendation. Pick up vim and read up on smarttab, expandtab, and shiftwidth. I use shiftwidth=4,tabstop=8,expandtab,smarttab -- Hans Fugal ; http://hans.fugal.net There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach
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