Re: [Haskell-i18n] Re: Tabs

On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 03:33:43PM +0000, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:

Sun, 25 Aug 2002 17:31:21 -0700, Ashley Yakeley pisze:

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Two opposing viewpoints, that you should not use tabs in source code at all -- http://adamspiers.org/computing/why_no_tabs.html

...and that you should tabs in source code, but only for indenting -- http://www.derkarl.org/why_to_tabs.html

There are also two viewpoints about how to use tabs, if at all:

1. Tabs are always 8, use whatever indent you like (by using as much tabs as fit and then spaces).

2. Indent is always one tab, the width is unspecified.

An interesting fact is that each of these viewpoints works fine when used consistently, but they conflict wich each other if mixed. That's why people won't universally agree on that: for everybody his method works fine internally, it becomes wrong when the other method comes.

Nice summary, although note the conflict is worse if (1) is interpreted as (2) [broken indentation] than if (2) is interpreted as (1) [excessive indentation]. Really, it doesn't matter very much. I'm sorry I brought the whole issue up. --Dylan