Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] Developer Guidelines (first draft)

[Andreas L. <no...@sb...>]

On 27 May 2001 21:02:39 +0200, Eric Bezault wrote:

> As promised here is a first draft of the developer guidelines.
> Of course I didn't have that much time to work on it, so it
> is far from complete. More sections should be added and 
> some existing sections need some more work. But there are
> already enough material for you to review.

Good work, Eric!
 

> CLASS LAYOUT
> 
> Indentations
> 
> Indentations from the left margin should be made up of tabs.

Are you sure? I would much prefere if we disallowed spaces. I use Emacs
and it's automatic indentation works great. There is no way I move away
from this editor any time soon.

I had always problems with people using different tab stop settings. I
have been asking around how to solve the issue and Berend finally gave
me the best advice: Don't use tabs. I can configure Emacs to not write
the tabs onto harddisk, which is what I do at the moment.

Please also have a look at: http://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html


regards,
Andreas
PS: I have the C_STRING_HELPER class ready for SE and ISE. I'd like to
give it some more thought (name etc.) before I submit it.