indent style for D

[Timon Gehr]

On 01/29/2012 08:26 PM, Marco Leise wrote:
> Am 29.01.2012, 16:23 Uhr, schrieb Trass3r <un at known.com>:
>
>>> Am I mistaken? If no, am I missing some major spaces advantages? If
>>> no, lets use tabs. Perhaps, there is no tool that will convert
>>> (convert right, not somehow, see article) tabs<->spaces in D code.
>>
>> There wouldn't be any problem if people were able to use tabs for
>> indentation and spaces for alignment, i.e. in cases like
>> if (cond1 &&
>> cond2)
>>
>> But people are dumb and many project leaders "take no risks" and
>> require spaces everywhere instead of doing it properly.
>
> If it cheers you up, I use that style. Once you get used to 'smart tabs'
> it is like using spaces. Just now and then I catch myself using tabs on
> the alignment for local variable comments:
>
> int foo; // does something (tabs)
> int bar; // something else (spaces)
>
> Then again "tabs for indentation only" is a simple rule, that would have
> turned the tabs into spaces in this example - if editors supported it.

*Real* editors can be configured to support smart tabs.