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Re: Crucial Question Forgotten
by Neil Stevens on Tuesday 18/Sep/2001, @08:02

While reloading http://www.kde.org/ waiting for the KDE 2.2.1 release, so that I can mention it on freekde in a timely manner, I happened to notice this article... and it's a good thing I did.

The definitive answer on code indentation is found at why-to-tabs.html, mirrored on freekde as Charles lost his DSL. A more complete style document is available at s-and-s.html

(I still wish you'd use slash so I can turn off comment display, Navindra)

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Re: Crucial Question Forgotten
by Navindra Umanee on Tuesday 18/Sep/2001, @09:11

And this from the person who actually used but subsequently abandoned Slash for some other wanabee LAMP solution? ;)

-N.

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Re: Crucial Question Forgotten
by KDE User on Tuesday 18/Sep/2001, @11:29

Definitive my ass. The fact that you prefer it hardly makes it definitive. Plus it was written by Charles. Not to downplay his significance in KDE, but he's hardly an authority on all of programming. K&R say style is choice of the coder (what a shock!), and the only thing they recommend is sticking with the same style throughout your code, which is excellent advice.

So stop this "definitive" crap.

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Re: Crucial Question Forgotten
by Guillaume Laurent on Tuesday 18/Sep/2001, @14:49

> The definitive answer on code indentation is found at why-to-tabs.html

I think it comes as no surprise that the person who wrote this (Charles) is still in high school. None of his arguments hold ground. This one in particular is a gem :

"Any editor that doesn't cope with tabs isn't an editor, but a bug (emacs comes to mind)."

Be assured that once he graduates, after a couple of years working as a professional programmer part of a team, he'll have quite a different opinion. At least I hope for him :-).

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Re: Crucial Question Forgotten
by Carlos Rodrigues on Tuesday 18/Sep/2001, @15:33

Yeah... really definitive, anyone who uses tabs for identation will eventually use a space (mainly when you break statements into multiple lines) and... voilá, your code now visually suck everywhere but your editor (good luck trying to avoid it). Anyway tabs or spaces are a matter of personal choice, there's nothing definitive about that. I use spaces... I want my code to look the same everywhere... maybe I'm evil, but that's my choice.

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