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 |
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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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