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  indenting bob <bob@coolfone.comze.com> - 2012-12-14 13:47 -0800
    Re: indenting Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-12-15 15:40 +1300
      Re: indenting "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2012-12-15 09:10 +0100
        Re: indenting Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2012-12-15 04:10 -0600
        Re: indenting "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2012-12-15 11:17 +0000
        Re: indenting Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-12-15 12:16 +0000
          Re: indenting "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2012-12-15 12:29 +0000
            Re: indenting Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-12-16 08:29 +1300
    Re: indenting rossum <rossum48@coldmail.com> - 2012-12-15 13:23 +0000
    Re: indenting treetaxi <noreply@treetaxi.invalid> - 2012-12-15 19:28 -0700
      Re: indenting Thomas Mlynarczyk <thomas@mlynarczyk-webdesign.de> - 2012-12-16 20:54 +0100

#2605 — indenting

Is it better to use tabs or spaces when indenting code?

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#2607

bob wrote:
> Is it better to use tabs or spaces when indenting code?

Is it better to buy a blue or a red car?

Those who prefer blue will give you one answer, those who prefer red 
another.

-- 
Ian Collins

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#2608

On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 15:40:17 +1300, Ian Collins wrote:

> bob wrote:
>> Is it better to use tabs or spaces when indenting code?
> 
> Is it better to buy a blue or a red car?
> 
> Those who prefer blue will give you one answer, those who prefer red 
> another.

Well, there is one argument against tabs. ASCII HT is 8 spaces wide, which
far too much. This tempts people to change the tab width in the IDE from
the ASCII standard to 2, 3, 4, whatever, keeping HT in the source. This
opens gates of hell.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de

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#2609

On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 09:10:16 +0100, "Dmitry A. Kazakov"
<mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:

>On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 15:40:17 +1300, Ian Collins wrote:
>
>> bob wrote:
>>> Is it better to use tabs or spaces when indenting code?
>> 
>> Is it better to buy a blue or a red car?
>> 
>> Those who prefer blue will give you one answer, those who prefer red 
>> another.
>
>Well, there is one argument against tabs. ASCII HT is 8 spaces wide, which
>far too much. This tempts people to change the tab width in the IDE from
>the ASCII standard to 2, 3, 4, whatever, keeping HT in the source. This
>opens gates of hell.


Fixed tab stops every eight positions is not specified by ASCII,
although it is a very common convention.

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#2610

Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

> Well, there is one argument against tabs. ASCII HT is 8 spaces wide, which
> far too much. This tempts people to change the tab width in the IDE from
> the ASCII standard to 2, 3, 4, whatever, keeping HT in the source. This
> opens gates of hell.

No, that's just Hell's catflap.

Where it goes tits-up is when people mix tabbed and spaced indentation -- then 
that hits absolute bottom when people used spaced indentation to match, say, 
what they see as 4-space tabs, and someone else uses spaced indentation to 
match what /they/ see as 2-spaced tabs.

My advice to the OP.  Use spaces or tabls exclusively: never mix.  If someone 
else mixes, then shoot them.  Do not attempt to warn them first, just blaze 
away...

    -- chris 

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#2611

Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

> Well, there is one argument against tabs. ASCII HT is 8 spaces wide, which
> far too much. This tempts people to change the tab width in the IDE from
> the ASCII standard to 2, 3, 4, whatever, keeping HT in the source. This
> opens gates of hell.

The tab character is interpreted however the text editor is configured to 
interpret it, and you will be hard pressed to find an IDE that doesn't let 
the user configure how tabs are interpreted.  

It's possible some underdeveloped text editors don't let the users configure 
how tabs are handled, but that would be the exception instead of the norm, 
and a waking call to look for an upgrade.


Rui Maciel

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#2612

Rui Maciel wrote:

> The tab character is interpreted however the text editor is configured to
> interpret it

Or the terminal.

(If you can remember terminals ;-)

    -- chris

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#2614

Chris Uppal wrote:
> Rui Maciel wrote:
>
>> The tab character is interpreted however the text editor is configured to
>> interpret it
>
> Or the terminal.
>
> (If you can remember terminals ;-)

Or the printer....

-- 
Ian Collins

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#2613

On Fri, 14 Dec 2012 13:47:42 -0800 (PST), bob <bob@coolfone.comze.com>
wrote:

>Is it better to use tabs or spaces when indenting code?
For yourself, use whatever you prefer.  For exporting code to other
places either use whatever is specified by the destination.  If
nothing is specified, then use spaces since they will look the same
everywhere.  Tabs will look different depending on what setting is
used for tab width.

$0.02

rossum

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#2615

On 12/14/2012 02:47 PM, bob wrote:
> Is it better to use tabs or spaces when indenting code?
Yes.  Dashes, asterisks, and greater-than's can confuse the compiler.

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#2617

treetaxi schrieb:
> On 12/14/2012 02:47 PM, bob wrote:
>> Is it better to use tabs or spaces when indenting code?
> Yes.  Dashes, asterisks, and greater-than's can confuse the compiler.

Maybe the OP should have written "tabs XOR spaces". Then the correct 
answer would have been "Yes".

Greetings,
Thomas

-- 
Ce n'est pas parce qu'ils sont nombreux à avoir tort qu'ils ont raison!
(Coluche)

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