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

["Jérôme M. Berger"]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> ""J�r�me 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.
> 
	Yes, that is the main reason why I use spaces for indenting...

> 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.
> 
	Well, standard (printed) typographic practices put spaces outside
the parenthesis and none inside. And as opposed to a lot of
typographic rules, that one is a constant across languages and variants.

		Jerome
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