Re: new jalopy available

[Aaron M. Renn]

David P Grove (address@hidden) wrote:
> For what it's worth, we (Jikes RVM) have been getting complaints from 
> users who are trying to browse Jikes RVM source code using Eclipse that it 
> is somewhat annoying to have tabs in the source code.  If a tab represents 
> 8 spaces, but your spaces per indentation level is something else (eg 2 or 
> 4) then the IDE gets unhappy and starts doing wierd stuff.  It also 
> creates a minor annoyance when you get patches from users that created 
> them in an ide where spaces per tab is often set equal to indent level.
> 
> We've decided to give up on tabs in all of Jikes RVM's source code as the 
> slight increase in file size doesn't seem to be worth the annoyance.

I've always thought that using tabs for formatting in source code was
a Bad Thing.  In fact, replacing tabs with spaces seems to be conventional
wisdom most of the places I've worked.  So count me as a supporter
of nuking tabs.

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Aaron M. Renn (address@hidden) http://www.urbanophile.com/arenn/