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Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 17:00:35 -0200
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
To: Emiliano Gabrielli <emiliano.gabrielli@roma2.infn.it>
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Subject: Re: Indention - why spaces?
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Em Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 07:53:22PM +0100, Emiliano Gabrielli escreveu:
> 
> <quote who="Dave Jones">
> > On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 12:49:33PM +0000, John Bradford wrote:
> >  > > Well, I disagree: http://www.wiggy.net/rants/tabsvsspaces.xhtml
> >  > In my opinion, indentation in any form is irritating.
> >
> > The devfs source code is --> that way.
> >
> 
> IMHO and in my personal projects I use the following indenting rules:
> 
> 1) use TABs for _indentation_
> 2) use SPACEs for aligning
> 
> here is an exaple:
> 
> <tab><tab>if (cond) {
> <tab><tab><tab>dosometing;
> <tab><tab><tab>printf("This is foo: '%s', and this bar: '%d'",
> <tab><tab><tab>       foo, bar);
> 
> where tabs are explicitated, while spaces not.
> 
> 
> I think this way combines both tab and spaces advantages, allowing each coder
> to have its own indentation width, but NEVER destroing the aspect of the code.
> 
> This is only my opinion :-P

I second that.

- Arnaldo
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