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

[Nick Sabalausky]

""Jérôme M. Berger"" <jeberger at free.fr> wrote in message 
news:io4sng$1p9b$1 at digitalmars.com...
>Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> ""J?r?me M. Berger"" <jeberger at free.fr> wrote in message
>> news:io230l$1ldc$3 at digitalmars.com...
>>> Well, I have worked in both environments, and I have seen a lot
>>> more mess ups with tabs than with spaces... Other than that (and the
>>> fact that almost *no* editors are able to do it properly), I would
>>> really prefer "tabs for indent, spaces for align".
>>
>> I prefer "tabs for indent, tabs for align, spaces for separation", but 
>> that
>> requires elastic tabstops. And at least one of the biggest code-edit
>> controls out there (the one I use), Scintilla, doesn't support them :(
>>
>>
> That depends what you mean by "align". I agree that for the
>following, elastic tab stops would be best:
>
>int      a;
>SomeType b;
>
> However, for this, I think that spaces are better:
>
>doSomething (someLongParameterThatJustifiesBreakingTheLine,
>             someOtherLongParameterJustInCase);

I guess we disagree on that. Like I said in another branch, I used to do 
that, but then I found that mixing tabs/spaces before the first 
non-whitespace on a line is just asking for trouble.

I'd rather do it like this (assuming elastic tabstops):

doSomething(->someLongParameterThatJustifiesBreakingTheLine,
->            someOtherLongParameterJustInCase);

Of course, that does demonstrate that I've never liked putting any 
whitespace between a function name (or if/while/etc.) and the opening paren. 
YMMV.