Re: Tip For The Day
| From: | Chris Shiflett | Date: | Tue, 27 Jan 2004 18:49:09 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Tip For The Day | ||
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--- Robert Cummings <robert@interjinn.com> wrote:
> Event better... turn your editor's tab character to 4 spaces, then
> your code never contains those despicable tab characters and you won't
> accidentally insert tabs into strings :)
And your file sizes increase by 25%, and you enforce your tab preference
on every other developer (rather than letting them choose their own), and
you'd better hope that everyone's editor can perform operations on
vertical selections of text, otherwise changes in identation becomes a
huge hassle.
I think tabs are great. :-)
Chris
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