Re: [naviserver-devel] codestyle

[Stephen D. <sd...@gm...>]

On 6/13/05, Zoran Vasiljevic <zv...@ar...> wrote:
> Hi !
>=20
> I would like to see if we can agree on the style used when
> formatting source-code.
>=20
> What I find very annoying is the usage of the TAB. According
> to both AOL and TCL style-guides, the TAB is deprecated.
> Now, in the Tcl project, it is still used, which I do not
> really understand??
>=20
> The problem with TAB's is: if you have some other TAB-width
> set then 8 spaces, the format looks pretty desperate and difficult
> to follow.
> OTOH, if you expand TABS to spaces, then normally you can read the
> code regardless of your current TAB width.
>=20
> I would suggest we avoid using TAB's for formatting and use plain
> spaces instead. I have setup this in emacs to expand TAB's to
> spaces always.
>=20
> What do you think?


I think this page needs some love:

http://naviserver.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Code_Standards