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Article #20Re: Which one for Newbie (Java - Eclipse or JBuilder)
From: Ryan Breidenbach
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 13:12
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 13:12
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Can you name every single tool that will be used to view your code
when you write it? Not just by you, but by everybody else that may
need to look at your code? Can you guaruntee me that every single tool
that will be used to view the code you write will handle tabs
perfectly?
Also, have you read the rest of this post. There have been several
examples where tabs fail to indent consistently, where spaces do. I
have provided several examples myself, and the only response I ever
hear is, "Yeah, tabs may not work in THAT situation, but they are
still better than spaces..." And you still have not answered the
question - what advantages do tabs have over spaces?
Until you convince me otherwise, I still can't see how you can justify
tabs.
> 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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