Re: Tip For The Day

On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 13:49, Chris Shiflett wrote: > --- 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 Hard-drives are cheap, and I don't see anyone writing scripts at the Gig level yet. > on every other developer (rather than letting them choose their own), and Yes but now every developer knows there's 4 spaces there, and not 3 spaces and a tab, or 2 tabs and a space, all of which can look like crap if you change your preferred tab width anyways. > you'd better hope that everyone's editor can perform operations on > vertical selections of text, otherwise changes in identation becomes a > huge hassle. My editor does vertical selection fine. > I think tabs are great. :-) Its all good, it's like inline braces versus dropped braces and every other coding style debate :) There's no winner. Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'