Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 08 Nov 2007 10:58:53 -0500 | From | Chris Snook <> | Subject | Re: Coding Style: indenting with tabs vs. spaces |
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Benny Halevy wrote: > Greetings, > > I would like to hear peoples opinion about the indentation convention > described below that I personally found the most practical with > several different editors. > > The gist of it is that tabs should be used for nesting, not for decoration. > Indent your code with as many tabs as your nesting level, where all statements > will begin, and from there on use space characters. > The rational behind it is to be tab-width agnostic so regardless of your > tab expansion setup, the code will look correct and will make sense. > > When you break a line and want the new line text to start below a specific point > relative to the previous line (I consider that "decorating") then start the new > line with the same number of tabs as the previous one and then just use space > characters as their width is the same as any character in the previous line, > (assuming fixed-width fonts of course).
I find it meaningful to indent extended lines one extra tab stop, but beyond that I agree it is just decoration.
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