Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] Tabs in sources

[Nicolas C. <war...@fr...>]

> > > since the INRIA-team has decided to avoid tabulators in sources, and
> > > since I also think that this is good style, I'd propose that each tab
> > > be replaced by (two) ordinary spaces. Any comments?
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> The advantage of tabs over spaces is that it allows us to avoid a flamewar
> over *how many* spaces to indent.  This way, just set your tabstops to
> whatever you want.  You can set your tabstops to 2, I can set them to 4,
> we're both happy, all the code looks correct, and we're not constantly
> reindenting each other's code.

I agree choosing the tabstop is convenient. I personnaly also prefer "large"
4-spaces indents agains "short" 2-spaces ones. IMHO they make the code more
readable. But as you might notice, the 80 chars limit will not be the same
if the tabstops is 2 or 4 :-) The only point is that the "community" is
somehow agreeing not to use tabs. If it would be only my choice, I would
keep tabs.

Another unexpected side effect of tabs is to keep the file size small :-)

Nicolas Cannasse