On 9 Apr 2009, at 06:04, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
Programming standards for LilyPond call for avoiding the tab
character.
We're free to choose whatever programming conventions we want for
our source
code.
I don't think it is a standard, but I would not mind making it a
standard.
Some years ago I suggested on some Bison that use two spaces instead
of tabs. - The common Unix convention of 8 spaces per tab provides far
to much indentation. I think perhaps it is used in GNU projects.
Han-Wen
(being trained to avoid tabs during daytime)
It is easier to use an editor that translates tabs into (say) 2
spaces. It is good to have a "translate tabs into spaces" feature run
over files.
(The worst thing I have encountered was the convention of mixing four
spaces indentations with tabs-equal to 8 spaces, plus a program that
failed the whole project if one typed it wrong - at the University
here in Stockholm!)
Hans
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