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From: Chad Myers
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 16:12

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"Ryan Breidenbach" <ryan_breidenbach@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > : Yes, but almost all editors will allow you to place spaces instead of
> > : tabs, still saving keystokes.
> >
> > It's not the same when outdenting.
>
> Agreed. Still, most decent IDEs/text editors will handle this for you,
> as well (usually by hitting Shift+Tab). Even so, this doesn't seem to
> outweigh how much tabs can jack up how code looks.
>
> As I mentioned before, I see people using them to line up things other
> than standard indentions (e.g. methods, inner classes, etc).
>
> For example, many people like to line up variable declarations like
> so:
>
>   private int              id;
>   private PreparedStatment stmt;
>   private String           name;
>
> As you can see in my post, they remain lined up, because they are
> aligned with spaces. Suppose I used tabs instead, but I set my tabs to
> equal two spaces (hey, it's my choice). Suppose you have your tabs set
> to four spaces. Here is what that code would look like with tabs:
>
>   private int                               id;
>   private PreparedStatement stmt;
>   private String                    name;
>
> Huh? That doesn't look so good. God help you if you have your tabs set
> to eight :-) This is why I can't stand tabs.

LOL, one tiny example.

For everything else, Tabs win.

So, use spaces for outdenting and tabs for everything else.

Using spaces for everything just because outdenting looks
better with spaces doesn't make much sense.

-c

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