Re: Indention - why spaces?

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (acme@conectiva.com.br)
Mon, 30 Dec 2002 17:00:35 -0200


Em Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 07:53:22PM +0100, Emiliano Gabrielli escreveu:
>
> <quote who="Dave Jones">
> > On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 12:49:33PM +0000, John Bradford wrote:
> > > > Well, I disagree: http://www.wiggy.net/rants/tabsvsspaces.xhtml
> > > In my opinion, indentation in any form is irritating.
> >
> > The devfs source code is --> that way.
> >
>
> IMHO and in my personal projects I use the following indenting rules:
>
> 1) use TABs for _indentation_
> 2) use SPACEs for aligning
>
> here is an exaple:
>
> <tab><tab>if (cond) {
> <tab><tab><tab>dosometing;
> <tab><tab><tab>printf("This is foo: '%s', and this bar: '%d'",
> <tab><tab><tab> foo, bar);
>
> where tabs are explicitated, while spaces not.
>
>
> I think this way combines both tab and spaces advantages, allowing each coder
> to have its own indentation width, but NEVER destroing the aspect of the code.
>
> This is only my opinion :-P

I second that.

- Arnaldo
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