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

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

Berend de Boer wrote:
> 
> It is the mix of tabs and spaces that causes problems. Just add this
> line
> 
>         set tabstop=2
> 
> in your .vimrc and browse a few files, not of your own, and you see
> the problems (take lib_std/collection3.e for example).

Yes, I'm well aware of this problem. That's why I suggested in
the guideline to use only tabs.

> And perhaps a sed script to convert existing code to tab format.

I already suggested that at the beginning of the discussion
but apparently to didn't read it. I even suggested to write
this tool in Eiffel because some 'sed' may not be installed
on all platforms:

! OK, I'll try to put together such little scripts
! and let you know when they are ready. I'll try to
! make them configurable so that we can specify the
! size of the tabs, and have two modes to convert
! tabs back and forth. Hmmm, we need something 
! OS-independent to write these scripts. I think the
! best choice for platform independent language in
! the context of the development of Gobo Eiffel
! package is ... Eiffel. What do you think?

If you want to write such tool, please do.

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Eric Bezault
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