Nathan Rixham wrote:
> Robert Cummings wrote:
>> On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 19:37 +0000, Stut wrote:
>>> On 28 Feb 2008, at 19:17, Wolf wrote:
>>>> Jason Pruim wrote:
>>>>> My editor automatically replaces like 4 spaces with a tab... Is
>>>>> there a reason not to use tabs instead of spaces? :)
>>>> I use spaces since when I indent with 4 spaces it is significantly
>>>> easier to read the code then with 4 tabs...
>>>>
>>>> 4 spaces are before this
>>>> 4 tabs are before this
>>>>
>>>> Pretty easy to follow code that does
>>>> {
>>>> {
>>>> {
>>>> {
>>>> }
>>>> }
>>>> }
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> Versus the alternative, especially with the character wrapping in
>>>> vi and other text editors.
>>>>
>>>> At least, that's IMO
>>>>
>>>> YMMV
>>> Except that if I inherit your code and I find it easier if it's
>>> indented to 8 spaces you've taken that choice away from me. Tabs are
>>> configurable on nearly all editors that exist in the world. If yours
>>> doesn't let you change the tab width, get a new one. But if you
>>> don't care about people who might end up working on your stuff, keep
>>> using spaces. Just hope you never change your mind.
>>
>> It's almost a standard across the industry to use spaces. But hey, if
>> you wanna take away my choice to use spaces whenever I work on your code
>> down the very long line, that's fine. I'm just gonna use my JOE editor
>> to fix them and purify any mixed tab/space indentation. If your editor
>> can't do that then you should get a better editor ;)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Rob.
>
> I use tab's in all my code, and replace them with spaces when
> posting/mailing for legibility.
>
> couldn't imagine ever hitting space 4/8/12/16+ times to write a line of
> code when i can just tab/shit+tab to indent.
Most editors that I've used allow you to use the tab key, the editor
just uses spaces (4 normally) instead of tab if that is your preference.
I never use the SHIT+tab key though :-)
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