[m-dev.] proposed change to the coding style document

Zoltan Somogyi zs at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Mon Mar 21 16:43:08 AEDT 2005


On 21-Mar-2005, Ralph Becket <rafe at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> I think non-8-space hard tabs should be forbidden.  If you are going to
> use hard tabs, they should be at 8 space intervals.

Ralph, Julien and I just met to discuss this, and Mark was outvoted,
mostly because far too many tools we have no control over assume that
a tab means 8 spaces.

Zoltan.
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