dfmt 0.1.0

Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Fri Mar 6 02:31:29 PST 2015


On Fri, 2015-03-06 at 01:37 -0800, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On 3/5/2015 7:15 PM, Brian Schott wrote:
> > You probably feel that way because tabs are better. dfmt only 
> > defaults to spaces
> > because that's what's in the Phobos style guide.
> 
> Spaces are used in Phobos because no two tools agree on what the tab 
> size should be.

That is the whole point of using tabs for indent, you can chose the 
indent amount: I tend to use 20ex.

Remember a tab is not a number of spaces, it is semantic markup. Using 
spaces is a low-level hack founded on a lack of separation of concerns 
and abstraction.

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