On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 10:19:15PM +0100, Paul Walker wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 04:17:07PM -0400, Derek Martin wrote:
>
> > characters. So, everyone gets to use whatever indent they prefer by
> > just changing the width of tab.
>
> Except that's not usually how it works out. The company I work for has a
> somewhat loose attitude to this kind of thing ("use tabs, but we don't care
> how wide they are"), and what you end up with is source code which looks bad
> at any tabbing level, because people have put varying numbers of tabs in to
> line things up.
Agreed... but you can't blame bad coding practices on tabs! Project
maintainers need to set coding standards... Like, "make sure your
code lines up with tabs set to 8 spaces..." Enforce strictly; reject
non-compliant code.
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