I believe this topic has been hashed out enough. Can we move on.
Todd
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Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 12:11 PM
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Subject: Re: Tabs vs. spaces (was: cvs commit: blah blah blah)
Please, don't start this ( again ). You can read the archives ( every six
months some smart people ask this question ), or check other mailing lists
for the same question.
Use whatever other people are using in that project. In tomcat you'll
notice the 4 space indentation, and 09 ( TAB ) is used in many
(most) files.
Changing a file from 09 ( TAB ) to spaces ( or reverse ) is _bad_, it is
(IMHO) lack of respect for the people who wrote the original code.
It may be better to use only spaces for new code you write - but at least
in tomcat this is not required ( I do use 09 in most code I write for
example, and so far nobody -1 a commit I made for this reason ).
Costin
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Kief Morris wrote:
> Jon Stevens typed the following on 06:50 PM 4/10/2001 -0700
> >
> >Craig, does this mean you (finally) aren't using tabs anymore? :-)
> >
>
> So, are spaces kosher? The Sun coding standards document (which is the
> official Jakarta guideline?) says either is OK, but the mixed tabs and
spaces
> format I've found in the Catalina code I've mucked with is a PITA. Can I
just
> set my editor to use 4 spaces for tabs and reformat files I work with
> accordingly, without spawning a jihad?
>
> Kief
>
