[OpenAFS-devel] coding standards proposal

[Nathan Neulinger]

That's an interesting idea... What about eliminating tabs altogether? Will -ts0 do that?


On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 07:38:58AM -0500, Todd M. Lewis wrote:
> Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> > at the expense of code readability in my opinion, but we're like way on
> > the edge of a religious war now. sigh.
> 
> Caveat: My contributions to the OpenAFS code base have been minimal, and 
>   are like to remain so. The following comment is not meant as bait; 
> let's just say I'm saying it for completeness, then we can move on to 
> whatever mistake we care to make wrt tabs...
> 
> Tabs are evil critters and should be excised from all code.  They are a 
> poor substitute for spaces (which, BTW, are seldom misinterpreted) and 
> can no longer be justified (no pun intended) with storage so cheap these 
> days. Every editor I'm aware of can do what you intend with spaces, but 
> they can all screw up the intent of the misguided soul who put tabs in 
> to begin with.
> 
> You asked, I'm done, sorry it isn't indented properly, etc.
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