Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Jun 2007 22:22:55 +0400 | From | Cyrill Gorcunov <> | Subject | Re: coding style |
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[Kok, Auke - Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 11:05:07AM -0700] | Chris Friesen wrote: | >Consider two people, one with tabs as 8 characters and one with tabs as | >4 characters. If person A aligns using a tab plus a space (giving 9 | >characters), then the alignmnet will be all screwed up for person B (who | >will see 5 characters of alignment). | > | >The only rule that works (setting aside bad tools) is: | > | >"use tabs for indents and spaces for alignment" | > | >If that means you need to use two dozen spaces, then so be it. | | it would be awesome if the checkpatch.pl script could distinguish between | indentation and alignment space usage - this is going to cause major | confusion with patch submitters. | | I personally think that the sentence | | "use tabs for indents and spaces for alignment"
Absoulutely agreed with you! There sould be someting making strict rule over alignment (as it done for the tabs size).
| | should also be in the CodingStyle document to avoid confusion. | | Auke |
Cyrill
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