Tabs are really useful talking to a serial printer at 300baud, you save
almost 250ms every time you print a tab instead of eight spaces. :^)
On 26/01/2013 11:25 p.m., morten hattesen wrote:
If you look at the Sun/Oracle JAVA SE source code you'll not only find a
mixture of tabs and spaces in
Mostly, because I REALLY KNOW Eclipse. I know it to the point that I think
in terms of Eclipse commands and readjusting myself to use IDEA or whatever
fad is hip today is just counterproductive.
I have absolutely nothing against IDEA - I believe everyone who says it is
a great editor, but I LIV
If you look at the Sun/Oracle JAVA SE source code you'll not only find a
mixture of tabs and spaces in the same file, but even tabs requiring differing
indentation (4 and 8) to match the surrounding inddntation spacing. Makes some
files totally unreadable. And no way of just reformatting, as the
And depending on your language, whitespace matters.
Take python/haskell for instances, whitespace indicates block level. If
you have mixed tab/space, things can get nasty,
Also lisps tend to favor code indenting styles like:
(do-something-long [[100,200,300]
I would like to think that the true holy war nature of tabs vs spaces is
because of the significance of tabs in some languages. Well, really, only
Make. Because, otherwise, if you just set your tabstop to 4 spaces you are
likely to only notice that tabs are present if you are looking for them.
On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:17:52 +0100, Rakesh
wrote:
Isn't this a bit like King Knut?
I've seen soo much code over the years, much of it legacy, to think this
is
a problem worth solving. If I worked extensively in one codebase and
never
saw anyone else's code including open source code fro
On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:49:08 +0100, Ricky Clarkson
wrote:
I just don't know why people continue to use Eclipse.
In many cases it's IBM sales force.
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I've just found such a line in the codebase I'm working on. Firstly,
IDEA's annotations show the last non-whitespace change without any fuss at
all.
Secondly, it's an svn project but I have a separate git svn clone that I
use for bisects etc., so I went into there and did:
git blame thefile, tha
On 25 January 2013 17:29, Jess Holle wrote:
> Set your diffing tools to ignore space changes and then there's no issue
> with tab-to-space conversion muddying them up.
>
It's not always about diffs. Try using subversive and the show annotations
functionality in eclipse with a file someone's hel
http://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html
“An eternal holy war.”
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On 1/25/2013 10:51 AM, Brian Smith wrote:
Tabs are nice because users can pick their own display width. Spaces
are nice because non leading space can be formatted more accurately.
There's very little difference in readability though.
Tabs are only workable if everyone involved is fanatical abo
Isn't this a bit like King Knut?
I've seen soo much code over the years, much of it legacy, to think this is
a problem worth solving. If I worked extensively in one codebase and never
saw anyone else's code including open source code from outside my
organisation, then maybe I would be sensitive to
Tabs are nice because users can pick their own display width. Spaces are
nice because non leading space can be formatted more accurately. There's
very little difference in readability though.
The only thing that's important in the tabs vs spaces debate is to pick one
and stick to it and enforce
Tabs are evil unless they're used with /fanatic /consistency throughout
a source file.
Even with everyone's editors set to use tabs, I've yet to see the
necessary level of consistency in the real world.
For example,
public void foo( SomeTypeA a, SomeTypeB b, SomeTypeC c, ...
I dont have a strong opinion about tabs vs spaces because I've never found
myself in a situation where I sat there thinking this is a problem.
Maybe I'm just tab/space blind?
On 25 January 2013 16:26, Tor Norbye wrote:
> I'm pretty sure it's not just me and that Carl is equally adamant against
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> Date: Fri, Jan 25, 2013 11:30 am
> Subject: [The Java Posse] Re: Tabs and spaces - I don't get it
> To:
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> +1 on no tabs
>
> On 2013-01-25, at 5:26 PM, Tor Norbye wrote:
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> I'm pretty sure it's not just me a
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+1 on no tabs
On 2013-01-25, at 5:26 PM, Tor Norbye wrote:
> I'm pretty sure it's not just me and that Carl is equally adamant against
> tabs. I also don't think anyone on the Posse disagreed with it, even if they
> aren't as passionate about it as Carl and I.
>
> If you've never run into a f
I'm pretty sure it's not just me and that Carl is equally adamant against
tabs. I also don't think anyone on the Posse disagreed with it, even if
they aren't as passionate about it as Carl and I.
If you've never run into a file with mixed tabs or spaces, congratulations,
you're on a team where
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