[ruby-core:36267] Re: Whitespace conventions?

Em 17-05-2011 06:19, NARUSE, Yui escreveu:
> 2011/5/17 Ryan Davis<[e-mail]>:
>> On May 16, 2011, at 23:54 , NARUSE, Yui wrote:
>>
>>> 2011/5/17 Steve Klabnik<[e-mail]>:
>>>> So, while working on some documentation, I've noticed that there's a lot of
>>>> mismatched spaces and tabs in the standard library. Is there a real
>>>> convention for this? Would a patch that converts everything to two spaces
>>>> rather than tabs, and removes white spaces at the ends of lines be accepted?
>>>> I'd imagine that being consistent is better than a patchwork of indentation.
>>> If you use Emacs or Vim, I wrote a guide:
>>> http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/projects/ruby/wiki/DeveloperHowto#coding-style
>> I am disappointed that we can't just switch entirely to spaces. It seems so antiquated.
>>
>> That said, your URL suggests you wouldn't mind a sweeping commit for all the ruby code with tabs left. Would that be OK for Steve or me to do?
> Why must we be converted to your expandtab religion?
> Will you say the same thing when you contribute to GNU?

Well, when we program in a language, there are usually conventions 
attached to it. When we use Java or Javascript, we usually write with 
CamelCase while in Ruby we are used to underscore_names.

In the same way, we Rubyists are used to 2-space indenting, not tabbed 
ones. I think we could apply the same style to the C-code as well, as 
Rubysts are already used to it. Let me ask the inverse. Why to use both 
tabbed-indented and space-indented styles? What is the problem in 
converting tabs to spaces?