Richard Proctor made some excellent comments, and asked:
>When measuring whitespace how does the system treat tabs? (be realistic
>and dont FLAME)
I suggest that there be NO tab/space conversion. Not 8 columns, not
4 columns, nothing. If the here doc terminator has four tabs preceding
it, then four tabs should be stripped from each of the lines in the
string. If the terminator has one tab and four spaces, then one tab
and four spaces should be stripped from each of the lines.
Mixing spaces and tabs is basically evil, but if you're consistent
about it, it's your own rope for you to trip over or hang yourself.
I set my tab stops to four columns; at least one of my coworkers
sets his tab stops to eight columns. We edit the same code with no
problems.
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Eric J. Roode, [EMAIL PROTECTED] print scalar reverse sort
Senior Software Engineer 'tona ', 'reh', 'ekca', 'lre',
Myxa Corporation '.r', 'h ', 'uj', 'p ', 'ts';
