From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@gnat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: usage of tab in the indentation...
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 14:13:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1020912211341.ZM4842@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@gnat.com> "Re: usage of tab in the indentation..." (Sep 12, 12:45pm)
On Sep 12, 12:45pm, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> That's fair enough. I know it would cause some of us some problems
> to switch to spaces, so wasn't really hoping for a change in policy,
> but I'm still curious as to why we used tabs and not spaces. What are
> the benefits?
I'm not sure that there are any real benefits anymore, just inertia. ;-)
At one time, I suspect that using tabs instead of spaces might've been
viewed as a space (as in storage) conserving measure.
One of the things which annoys me is that tabs mean different things
to different people. I haven't found this to be an issue recently,
but there have been times when I've worked with code where the size of
the tab wasn't 8 and during those times, I wished we could all agree
to just do away with tabs.
> In the meantime, I take it people will not yell if the indentation in a
> patch looks a bit bizarre :-)...
I've gotten used to it.
Kevin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-12 21:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-12 12:06 Joel Brobecker
2002-09-12 12:24 ` Michael Snyder
2002-09-12 12:45 ` Joel Brobecker
2002-09-12 14:13 ` Kevin Buettner [this message]
2002-09-12 17:58 ` Michael Snyder
2002-09-12 18:26 ` Tom Tromey
2002-09-12 18:40 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-09-19 4:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
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