[wp-hackers] Please, please PLEASE use tabs instead of spaces!

[Joe Pritchard]

Spaces only look uniform if you load the source code and display it in a
non-proportional font.  If you use a proportional font then using spaces
leads to ragged formatting.

In twenty years of professional programming I've always been asked to use
tabs because they align text in any font.

Would certainly second the sue of tabs - any decent editor will allow you to
set the tab widths and settings, even on Windows (which is what I use) :-)

And it's a heck of a deal if you're maintaining other people's code - you
need all the help with layout and comments that you can get!

Joe


----- Original Message -----
From: "smea gol" <logicus at gmail.com>
To: <hackers at wordpress.org>
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 5:04 PM
Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Please, please PLEASE use tabs instead of spaces!


> Spaces look more uniform though, while tabs are often set differently
> on different editors. Also, occasionally when changing the
> reindentation - you'd have to go back and add spaces anyways - since
> tabs are set at a certain distance.
>
> The php parser ignores spaces anyways, so it really isn't that big of a
deal.
>



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