Re: Consistent indentation for test files

From: 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. -- Christoph M. Becker

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