Re: On Tabs and Spaces

General comment about the <tab> versus spaces debate.

The root problem is stupid editors that does not show when a tab is used and when spaces are used. So people continue to mix tabs and spaces.

In linux people generally think that 8 aligned spaces equal a tab which is IMHO stupid. Tabs should be used for indent and not general alignment.

Consider: <tab>if (some long condition that <tab>....&& spans two lines) { <tab><tab>my_private_printf("bla bla bla" <tab><tab>.................."more bla bla\n"); <tab><tab>}

This will look good and align "more bla bla\n" as intended no matter your tab setting. But replacing the 8 spaces with a tab will cause it to look bad.

And using tabs let me use the tabsetting I like (8) and other use the tab setting they like (2,3,4,5,6,7) and all is good.

And why a tab is 8 spaces and in considered good. Thats to teach people to write small independent functions that does _one_ thing and does it well. Mega functions with 6 times indent or more usually needs to be breaked up anyway.

	Sam