Re: [HACKERS] Source code format vote

On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:

> Thus spake Vince Vielhaber
> > Ok, this is probably a really dumb question and probably even been answered
> > before but I missed it. Why not make a tab be a tab and however it appears
> > in the end programmer's editor can be up to the programmer? Or is pgindent
> > changing tabs to spaces?
>
> Not a dumb question at all. However, think about comments. Look at
> this example.
>
> i++; /* This variable is being incremented. I am commenting *
> * this because it is such a stupid variable name
> */
>
> Under my editor that comment lines up nicely but it will look cockeyed
> for many people reading this because I used tabs instead of spaces and
> my tabs are 4, not the usual 8.

Good point. I'm looking at it in pine right now and it's not too well
lined up.

Vince.
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