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

[Eric B. <er...@go...>]

Berend de Boer wrote:
> 
> Eric Bezault <er...@go...> writes:
> 
> > Consider that we use spaces (wait, I didn't say that I agree
> > to spaces yet! ;-)), then we enter yet another religious war:
> > how many spaces should we put for indentation? With tabs we
> > don't have this problem.
> 
> Emacs gives me 3 spaces, what does OOSC2 say? 

OOSC2, page 894:

  The comb structure uses indentation, achieved through tab
  characters (*not* spaces, which are messy, error-prone, and
  not reader-parameterizable).

>From what I can see, it seems that the size of tabs used in 
examples in OOSC2 is 4.

> > > With Emacs you can tabify sources when you load them and untabify when
> > > saved.
> >
> > What do you mean by "tabify"? Do you mean replace spaces by tabs?
> 
> Yes.

Then I don't see where the problem is. You can convert
tabs to 3 spaces when you load the Eiffel class into Emacs,
and convert them back to tabs when you save the file.

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Eric Bezault
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