Re: Sometimes I wonder why I even started programming...

On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 19:37 +0000, Stut wrote: > On 28 Feb 2008, at 19:17, Wolf wrote: > > Jason Pruim wrote: > >> My editor automatically replaces like 4 spaces with a tab... Is > >> there a reason not to use tabs instead of spaces? :) > > > > I use spaces since when I indent with 4 spaces it is significantly > > easier to read the code then with 4 tabs... > > > > 4 spaces are before this > > 4 tabs are before this > > > > Pretty easy to follow code that does > > { > > { > > { > > { > > } > > } > > } > > } > > > > Versus the alternative, especially with the character wrapping in vi > > and other text editors. > > > > At least, that's IMO > > > > YMMV > > Except that if I inherit your code and I find it easier if it's > indented to 8 spaces you've taken that choice away from me. Tabs are > configurable on nearly all editors that exist in the world. If yours > doesn't let you change the tab width, get a new one. But if you don't > care about people who might end up working on your stuff, keep using > spaces. Just hope you never change your mind. It's almost a standard across the industry to use spaces. But hey, if you wanna take away my choice to use spaces whenever I work on your code down the very long line, that's fine. I'm just gonna use my JOE editor to fix them and purify any mixed tab/space indentation. If your editor can't do that then you should get a better editor ;) 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. | `------------------------------------------------------------'