From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2005-03-23T09:24:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Any guides for good coding in Ruby?

* Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-talk@rawuncut.elitemail.org> [2005-03-23 09:11:59 +0900]:

> * James Edward Gray II (Mar 22, 2005 23:50):
> > Amen!  I don't know who thought up the two space thing, but they were
> > out of line.  :)  In Ruby, you don't even need the extra characters to
> > keep lines short, generally.  I'm set tabs to four spaces wide, but
> > it's definitely tabs all the way.
> 
> Messing with the width of tabs is always crazier than using two-space
> indents.

Boy, I don't know where all this came from, I thought the majority
were all on the same page, but maybe it is because of
all the new people. Maybe we should have a coding standard
linked from ruby-lang.

One problem with tabs is that people tend to mix tabs and spaces,
then, when I set the tab to be 2-spaces, I may get 2,3 or 4 spaced
indents.

-- 
Jim Freeze
Code Red. Code Ruby