Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:02:39 +0100 | | From | Richard Knutsson <> | | Subject | Re: [RFC] CodeStyle: Use spaces when aligning/decorating | |
Benny Halevy wrote:
>
> How about this:
>
> -Tabs are 8 characters, and thus indentations are also 8 characters.
> -There are heretic movements that try to make indentations 4 (or even 2!)
> -characters deep, and that is akin to trying to define the value of PI to
> -be 3.
> +Tabs are used for logical indentation, e.g., code is indented with
> +a number of tabs equal to its nesting level. From there on,
> +use space characters for decorative indentation. This method
> +is agnostic to the editor's tab-expansion settings.
> +That said, expanding tabs to a small number of spaces (4, or even 2!) encourages
> +excessive nesting and resulting over-complexity; that is akin to trying to define
> +the value of PI to be 3. Therefore, tabs are always assumed to be 8 characters-wide.
>
>
Not sure about the PI-reference in that context, but the rest IMO looks
good.
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