Re: Spaces vs tabs: what is right for SW?

Stephen D. Williams wrote on 10/29/17, 5:35 AM :

> Tabs are pretty much forbidden in source code of any kind, except Makefiles.

In our team we use *of course* tabs because then one can choose individually
how much space that would make. "Model-view" paradigm!

Code is java using eclipse and scripting with vim.

>  Because Microsoft went a different way than the Unix 
> world, and now we all play together on the same projects, code, etc., tabs aren't allowed in any sane environment anymore.  All or 
> nearly all coding standards dictate spaces only, which programming editors can be configured for.

I wondered if this is so and had a look in a project mainly coded by
Windows-Users. They also use tabs.

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> sdw
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> On 10/28/17 10:33 AM, Nathan Rixham wrote:
>> I like 2 spaces, but tabs are considerably less bytes down the wire.
>>
>> On 28 Oct 2017 18:23, "Sarven Capadisli" <info@csarven.ca <mailto:info@csarven.ca>> wrote:
>>
>>     Discuss.
>>
>>     -Sarven
>>     http://csarven.ca/#i
>>
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