From: Ryan Paul <segphault@...>
Date: 2004-06-12T14:28:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Appropriate use of camelCase

On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 15:52:47 +0000, Sean Russell wrote:

> Patrick Bennett wrote:
> 
>> FWIW, I have yet to hear a good reason for hard tabs.  :)   As soon as a
> 
> Well, one good reason is that if you like your tab stops every 8 spaces, and
> I like mine every 2 spaces, then I can read your sources without too much
> irritation.
> 
> I find, in practice, that spaces are better than tabs, but only if you're
> (a) not sharing sources, (b) all have the same aesthetics (or can force
> your aesthetics on everybody else >-), or (c) have a really good
> reformatter built into your editor.  Actually, (c) is nice to have whether
> or not you're using spaces.

I dont know why everyone makes such a big deal about tabs vs spaces. If
your editor isnt a piece of crap, switching between tabs and spaces, and
changing the number of spaces, should be no problem as long as the file is
written consistently. One of my colleagues uses hard-tabs exclusively, and
I use two space soft tabs. Every time he sends me a file, I run a command
in vim, and *POOF* - it uses two space soft tabs. I send him the file
back, and he uses a perl script he wrote to convert it back.

I only have a problem when somebody uses spaces and tabs interchangeably
in the same file. Even then, its not that much trouble to fix.