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From: Markus M. <ma...@oe...> - 2003-10-05 09:36:14
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Hi, 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? Regards, Markus -- Markus Mottl http://www.oefai.at/~markus ma...@oe... |
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From: Nicolas C. <war...@fr...> - 2003-10-05 09:48:27
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> 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? We already have been discussed about that : Tabs are entirely my fault since there is no auto-tab on my windows editor (no flames here please). We concluded that the "working" sources can contains tabs but that once finalized we will switch from tabs to spaces ( 2 ou 4 , matter of taste ). Looks like this second point have been forgot before the release :-) Nicolas Cannasse |
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From: Brian H. <bh...@sp...> - 2003-10-05 17:57:03
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On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Nicolas Cannasse wrote: > > 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? > > We already have been discussed about that : > Tabs are entirely my fault since there is no auto-tab on my windows editor > (no flames here please). We concluded that the "working" sources can > contains tabs but that once finalized we will switch from tabs to spaces ( 2 > ou 4 , matter of taste ). Looks like this second point have been forgot > before the release :-) I vote for 4. :-) Seriously, having worked with it for a while, I've found I don't mind tabulated source. So long as it's tabs first, then spaces. Yeah, I know that if you search the past emails, I was opposed to this before. One important point I will make: windows and unix seem to have a different idea of what a tab means. On windows, a line " \tx" causes the x to be in column 9 (assuming a tabstop of 8), while on unix the x is in column 8. In windows, a tab moves you tabstop columns to the right, while in unix a tab moves you to the next column which is an integer multiple of the tabstop. Note that tabs followed by spaces is always correct, so "\t x" always puts the x in column 9 (assuming a tabstop of 8) on both windows and unix. It's spaces followed by tabs which create a mess. I don't know if people noticed this or not, but I used this in my code when I'm lining code up with specific parts of the line above. For instance, if I have a multi-line let statement, it'll be entered like: \t\tlet x = some stuff \t\t some more stuff \t\tin ... This way, no matter what you set your tabstop to, the some more stuff on the second line is lined up correctly with the some stuff on the first line. On unix and on windows. 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. Brian |
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From: Nicolas C. <war...@fr...> - 2003-10-05 18:21:18
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> > > 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? [...] > 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 |
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From: Brian H. <bh...@sp...> - 2003-10-05 18:29:18
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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 |
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From: skaller <sk...@oz...> - 2003-10-06 03:40:44
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On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 04:22, Nicolas Cannasse wrote: > > > > since the INRIA-team has decided to avoid tabulators in sources, and > Another unexpected side effect of tabs is to keep the file size small :-) This is a side effect of badly designed file systems that can't compress data. |
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From: skaller <sk...@oz...> - 2003-10-06 02:43:37
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On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 19:49, Nicolas Cannasse wrote: > Tabs are entirely my fault since there is no auto-tab on my windows editor > (no flames here please). I regularly just use the space bar... > We concluded that the "working" sources can > contains tabs but that once finalized we will switch from tabs to spaces ( 2 > ou 4 , matter of taste ). i prefer 2 |
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From: Blair Z. <bl...@or...> - 2003-10-05 21:53:00
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Markus Mottl wrote: > > Hi, > > 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? I don't mind the number of spaces a tab is replaced with, but I do want tabs to disappear entirely. Best, Blair -- Blair Zajac <bl...@or...> Plots of your system's performance - http://www.orcaware.com/orca/ |
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