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Article #17Re: Which one for Newbie (Java - Eclipse or JBuilder)
From: Marshall Spight
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 05:56
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 05:56
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"Ryan Breidenbach" <ryan_breidenbach@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:55e900c9.0207281914.20261d1c@posting.google.com...
> What it all boils down to is this - if tabs are not
> represented consistently universally, why use them over spaces? I have
> yet to hear a reasonable answer.
People don't look at files "universally." They look at them using a small
set of tools. If those tools support a set of semantics for tabs that they
find more useful than spaces, then why *not* use them?
I always use tabs for indentation of code. (Not a mix of tabs and spaces;
just tabs.) I set tabs to expand to 4 spaces. If someone else like 2 or some
other number, they can view it that way. You can't do that with spaces.
On the other hand, the better answer is for the code-viewing tools to
format the code however the user wants to see it: { on the same line or
not, user-defined indentation, etc. No tool I know of does this, though.
Marshall
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