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

[Brian H. <bh...@sp...>]

On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Nicolas Cannasse wrote:

> 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.

I agree: given a choice, I'd take tabs and resizing my window.

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

This is such a small difference I'd declare it irrelevent.

Brian