From: Michael Witten Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 06:45:47 GMT Subject: On Tabs and Spaces Message-ID: <634393B0-734A-4884-93E3-42F7D3CB157F@mit.edu> What are the rules about tabs and spaces in source code? I'm having a terrible time with formatting, especially in the perl scripts; there is a mix of spaces and tabs. from what I can deduce, single tabs are used to introduce the equivalent of 8 spaces while 4 explicit spaces are used for half a tab. I would recommend using all spaces, but the C code seems to prefer all tabs. In any case, some kind of standards need to be set, because no one is following anything curr- ently. Sincerely, Michael Witten