Re: Consistent indentation for test files
| From: | Christoph M. Becker | Date: | Sat, 28 Oct 2017 12:42:53 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Consistent indentation for test files | ||
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On 28.10.2017 at 13:59, Nikita Popov wrote:
> Right now we do not have a consistent standard for the indentation of PHPT
> files. Some people create space-indented files, others create tab-indented
> files. Over time, indentation invariably starts to mix, because developers
> with different indentation settings work on one file.
>
> Here are the current statistics for code in .phpt files:
>
> total: 15515
> prefer tabs: 4273 (27.5%)
> prefer spaces: 6307 (40.7%)
> draw: 77 (0.5%)
> no indentation: 4858 (31.3%)
>
> There are 1824 (11.8%) files that contain mixed tab and space indentation.
> The indentation was determined based on the first character of a line.
Thanks for bringing this up!
> I would like to propose that we establish a common standard by
> a) using space indentation for all future tests (as they currently form the
> majority), and
> b) reindenting existing test files to use space indentation.
+1
I'm rather baffled that <http://qa.php.net/write-test.php> doesn't
address this issue at all.
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Christoph M. Becker