Steven D'Aprano enlightened us with:
> It seems to me that "one tab per indent level" is far more logical
> than "some arbitrary number, N, of spaces, often a multiple of
> eight, or four, or two, per indent level, and hope that the number
> of spaces is a multiple of that arbitrary N". But maybe t
Björn Lindström wrote:
> Ed Leafe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
>>Again, specifics would be welcome. I've been using tabs for
>>indentation for over a decade, and have not once run into the horror
>>stories that everyone who hates tabs says will happen, but who never
>>give specifics as to how
On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, [utf-8] Björn Lindström wrote:
This article should explain it:
http://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html
Ah, Jamie Zawinski, that well-known fount of sane and reasonable ideas.
It seems to me that the tabs-vs-spaces thing is really about who controls
the indentation: wi
On 12/4/05, Lee Harr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Everyone agrees that mixing is bad. I might even go so far as to
> say that the only real problem is mixing. The question is, if we
> are trying to pick only one, which one causes fewer problems.
>
> For me, it is spaces.
Why is it that the only p
> No matter what setting, the order of the indents is kept. This is not
> the case if tabs and spaces are intermixed, as some style guides
> suggest.
>
I have never seen anyone suggest mixing tabs and spaces, and I
have read a lot of tabs-vs-spaces flamewars in my time.
Everyone agrees that mixi
Björn Lindström enlightened us with:
> This article should explain it:
>
> http://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html
To me it doesn't. I use a single tab character for a single indent
levell. That is unambiguous, and also ensures the file is indented as
the reader likes it. People who have thei