Re: Tabs v.s. spaces (was Re: Programming first steps.)
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 02:19:02PM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> For personal pet projects, I use 2 spaces per nesting level. Some people
> think that's Pure Evil(tm),
Most noteably perhaps, Linus Torvalds, although...
>although I fully agree with you about wasting
> screen real estate in 80 columns (yes, I am one of those freaks who insist
> that all code must not have lines longer than 79 characters).
...he agrees with you on that point!
Torvalds' position is that code that cannot be expressed using
8-spaces-per-indent and wrap at 79 characters needs to be rewritten.
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Jon Dowland
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