Re: Tabs and spaces

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:46, Alex Riesen [off-list ref] wrote:

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 05:25, Thiago Farina [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 12:15 AM, Michael Witten [off-list ref] wrote:

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Oh, I still think a tabstop of 2 is insane (for various reasons, some
explained in the thread you mentioned).

tabstop of 2 is what we use on Chromium code (with spaces, no tabs).

It's indentation. You indent your code by 2 space.
It has nothing to do with tabstop.

In this discussion, it has everything to do with the tabstops
(1235e29d-6cbb-445b-9b6f-4e174c03ba8f-mfwitten@gmail.com):

Again, it should be recognized that there are 2 issues:

       * Indentation : This *can* be implemented with tabs
       * Alignment   : This *should* be implemented with only spaces

and it should also be recognized that treating tabs as a primitive
means of space-saving compression by having it always represent
some constant number of spaces (8) is just as flaky as expecting
people to properly use spaces for alignment; thus you might as
well go for the latter in order to get the best of both worlds,
because somebody is going to mess it up either way.