Tabs and spaces (style)

Courageous jkraska1 at san.rr.com
Wed May 2 02:22:16 EDT 2001


Whoever this dude was:

>> >Your actions are inconsistent with your reasoning. If there is a
>> >never-ending war, why enforce an action that only serves to fan flames?
>> 
>> Because, if one uses spaces, one can alway simply indent to the level
>> of the original programmer, but if one mixes spaces and tabs, it all falls
>> to hell in a handbasket.
>
>Flagrant strawman, the quoted poster having made it quite clear that
>s/he is talking about using tabs only.

But my response wasn't to the original poster; it was to the person
above, marked "whoever this dude was". As for the use of tabs only,
many editors can be configured to not enter tabs, but none that I know
of can be configured to not enter spaces.

C//




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