Re: New scope checking patch

Doug Evans
2008-01-17T23:40:18Z

On Jan 17, 2008 1:57 PM, Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> I'm told Open Source projects avoid tabs,

My theory on this is that this is done to cater to folks who errantly
thought implementing indentation level by setting the tab stop was a
good idea. i.e. want an indentation level of 4 - set your tab
character to 4 :-(. Oops.

> but it seems that GDB
> permits them, with tab stops every 8 columns.

Not unreasonable IMO.