Mason James wrote: > check this link for hearty examples of 'tabs versus spaces' > discussion, enjoy ;) > > http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=576936 > > > for me, the above discussion eventually has a obvious conclusion, > which is... > > tabs have the possibility to be displayed in a whole bunch of > different ways > depending on what os/shell/editor/termtype/xterm/whatever > combination you are using > > and spaces dont,.. > > > i think spaces continue to be the best 'lowest-common-denominator' > choice for a big open-source project like koha,
I agree with the above article. TABs are metadata, not display data. They give the programmer and reader a reliable indication of the structure of a program through consistent indentation. It is quite trivial for any viewer to set TAB STOP = 4 (or whatever is agreed upon) and get a consistent presentation. But presentation != metadata. > FYI: heres the link http://tidy.sourceforge.net/ There is only one caveat with tidy programs. One little bug can cause loss or change the semantics of what is being tidied. Silently. cheers rickw -- _________________________________ Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services Tis the dream of each programmer before his life is done, To write three lines of APL and make the damn thing run. _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha.org http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel
