On Dec 2, 2010, at 950AM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: > Gregg Wonderly wrote: >> As I've said here before and elsewhere, I really feel that tabs only is the >> most beneficial indentation to use. The reason is that it allows people who >> use odd tab intervals to still see things and use their tab key while >> editing without having to change their IDE settings while editing. >> Sun has an old formatting document that discusses using spaces only, and >> netbeans does this by default. The biggest issue for me, of course, is that >> I use 4 character tab expansion and tabs only in all of my development. >> In an open source world, all tabs is really the only thing that provides the >> most flexibility it seems to me. > > My current approach in making changes to River is to try to be consistent > with the code around the change. > > I am very strongly opposed to mixing tabs and space, because it loses > indentation consistency unless viewed with the same tab size as was used to > create it. > > I prefer all spaces because it avoids the nasty over-indentation you get if > all tabs is viewed in with 8 spaces per tab. For example, tabbed code has > real problems when quoted in mail or newsgroup messages. However, I'm > generally willing to be flexible about this sort of thing.
+1 for spaces over tabs
