[OT] Spaces/tabs (Was: simple display (from: GUI library for D))

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Mon Apr 11 09:02:36 PDT 2011


On 4/11/11 10:30 AM, Kagamin wrote:
> Jonathan M Davis Wrote:
>
>> Every place that I've ever worked
>> at has gone for spaces only, and I've only ever heard of one place where it
>> was required that tabs be used for indentation. I'm sure that there are
>> others, but it's rare that I've heard of anyone thinking that using tabs in
>> code was a good idea.
>
> People often follow wrong traditions blindly.

That is actually very true about tab. It's a straight carryover from 
typing machines that has no justification today.

Andrei


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