[Htmlparser-developer] Re: Htmlparser-developer digest, Vol 1 #255 - 1 msg

[Fernando M. <fn...@ne...>]

Hi,

What do you think about set a complete conding standards? Not only 
spaces but comments, functions, for's, if's etc.

My $0.02.

Regards,

-fmac


> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 22:55:34 -0400
> From: Derrick Oswald <Der...@ro...>
> To:  htm...@li...
> Subject: [Htmlparser-developer] tabs
> Reply-To: htm...@li...
> 
> 
> I'm thinking of making a gratuitous change to nearly all the htmlparser 
> source files -- replace tabs with spaces.
> 
> I've been using a tabstop of 4 and my guess is some others have been 
> using 8. This is too much in my opinion, but the point is there seems to 
> be too much ambiguity in the repository at the moment about whether to 
> use tabs or not and how many spaces they represent and hence how much 
> indent is applied when entering a block of code.  Maybe it's my fault. 
> I've been a 4 space person ever since moving away from the old DOS text 
> screens, where it was two spaces, and only because screen real-estate 
> was so precious.  So the code I've inserted must look horrendous for 
> those with an 8 spacing.
> 
> How about arbitrarily dictating that no tabs are allowed, and the indent 
> is 4?  Just set a standard and adhere to it.
> 
> I know every editor in use has a 'replace tabs with spaces' option and 
> it's just a matter of some people turning that feature on.  I can 
> correct the existing files in a few minutes (correctly adding the number 
> of spaces to get to the next tabs stop, not just globally substituting 
> spaces for tabs).
> 
> I know this is a religious issue, so I'll gladly offer to convince 
> anyone my way is correct and theirs is wrong, and trump anyone's code 
> drop with one that doesn't contain tabs until they give up. Harrumph!
> 
> Derrick