Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Dec 2002 14:47:07 +1100 | From | john slee <> | Subject | Re: Indention - why spaces? |
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On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 07:43:03PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote: > On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 07:33:20PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Felix Domke <tmbinc@elitedvb.net> writes: > > > > > i don't want to change anything, i just like to know WHY people use > > > spaces. are they somehow unportable? (i don't think so) > > > > <http://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html> > > Quouting from that page: > That ensures that, even if I happened to insert a literal tab in the > file by hand (or if someone else did when editing this file earlier), > those tabs get expanded to spaces when I save. > > If you are using a source management system, pretty much *any* source > management system, doing this will cause all the lines to be "rewritten" > if they had tabs. The fact that this person would advocate changing > code that they didn't actually change shows a distinct lack of clue. > No engineer who works for an even semi-pro company would dream of doing > this. At BitMover, anyone who seriously advocated this for more than > a day would be fired.
well, he DID work at netscape...
j.
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