On 6/3/06, Peter Beutner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The question is in how far that really works in reality. Even when leaving
such (imho) minor things like K&R or not, spaces after if or not,etc aside.
Just look at the tabs vs. space issue:
I don't really have a problem with both of them but mixing them is imo the
worst thing that could happen.
And things like this:
(tabs = underscore, space = dots)
...if() {
______int foo;
______if() {
______.....do_something();
......_____for()
......_____....do_somethingelse();
______}
....}
(and yes you really find things like this)
are just UGLY and if you don't have the exact same tabsize settings like the
author
you get complete "garbage".
Granted, I probably haven't even seen the majority of the source code and maybe
I just found
one of the few negative examples, but imho some kind of consensus here would be
definitly a good thing.
4-space indention and using spaces instead of tabs already seems to be most used
setting, so why not enforce it for everybody?
We do have a consensus about tabs vs. spaces. To quote the page I
sent you in the last message:
"Tabs are not forbidden but discouraged. A tab is defined as 8
characters and the usual amount of indentation is 4 characters."
More and more this is being followed, but we won't force it on anyone.
If someone creates a new page with tabs, we're not going to stop that
code from getting in.
--
James Hawkins
