Re: [boost] Tabs creep back into source files

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-09-09 11:36:53

From: "Rob Stewart" <stewart_at_[hidden]>

> Different people use different toolsets.  Some editors are more powerful
than
> others, of course, and that's always a factor.  However, when I print a
file, it
> goes from some command line tool, if I choose, to the printer.  It
doesn't go
> through my editor.  (I'm primarily on Solaris at work.)  I could probably
find a
> tool that would convert tabs to spaces according to some rule, through
which I
> could process Boost files, so I could get appropriate printed output.
However,
> even if there was a standard for indentation at Boost, other libraries
doing the
> same thing might have a different rule for mapping tabs to spaces.  If
there is
> no standard, but each library author is free to choose his/her own rule,
then
> things get even harder.  For these reasons, using tabs for indentation is
a
> lousy practice.

Another reason: the email list is an essential part of Boost and usually
leading tabs are stripped from emails, which makes source code copied from
headers with tabs unreadable when posted.

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