From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 22 11:05:38 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A025E1065672 for ; Fri, 22 May 2009 11:05:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alive@dienub.org) Received: from mail-fx0-f168.google.com (mail-fx0-f168.google.com [209.85.220.168]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FA178FC1C for ; Fri, 22 May 2009 11:05:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alive@dienub.org) Received: by fxm12 with SMTP id 12so1647695fxm.43 for ; Fri, 22 May 2009 04:05:37 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.113.132 with SMTP id a4mr3422226bkq.27.1242988563158; Fri, 22 May 2009 03:36:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090413140912.GC29833@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> References: <49E2FBE2.8020305@gmail.com> <20090413140912.GC29833@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 12:36:03 +0200 Message-ID: From: Rada alive To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: My whitespace style (was: Why?? (prog question)) X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 11:05:38 -0000 On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 4:09 PM, David Kelly wrote: > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:46:26AM +0200, deeptech71@gmail.com wrote: > > Tabs are better, because they allow the programmer to specify the > > desired width, and is dynamically changable at any time. > > Spaces are better because they let the author specify the formatting and > not left to some other re-interpretation. But you're the one re-interpreting the tab width. It's a setting in your editor.