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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: Gentoo-Dev <gentoo-dev@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Some 'proper coding' notes for ebuilds
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2003 18:48:29
Message-Id: 200308031448.28174.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Some 'proper coding' notes for ebuilds by Stuart Herbert
1 On Sunday 03 August 2003 14:07, Stuart Herbert wrote:
2 > Because, in any non-trivial piece of code, indents can end up being a
3 > mixture of tabs and spaces, rather than just tabs. When this happens, and
4 > you use a different tab size to the author, the indented code suddenly
5 > becomes a tad unreadable.
6
7 historically all bash pieces of code have been taborized and if you look
8 through the current tree, the vast majority are tabbed ...
9
10 the other reason i like tabs is we're looking at 1 byte vs 4 (or more) :)
11 -mike

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Some 'proper coding' notes for ebuilds Stuart Herbert <stuart@g.o>