Re: Subversion Repository for Euphoria
Robert Craig wrote:
>
> Chris Bensler wrote:
> > Firstly, if you are using TAB chars, then how big a tab is should be
> > irrelevant.
> > That's the whole point of using TAB instead of hard spacing.
>
> That's true as long as people use only tabs for indenting.
> Once they start mixing tabs and spaces, then things will be
> messed up when viewed with a different tab setting. For example,
> the problem Matt had when viewing code that I saved with ed.
>
When you use tabs to indent programs, you tab the entire line. If, instead,
you are using tabs to align normal text in tabular form (say 1st column
for name, 2nd for address, and so on), not only spaces generate
inconsistencies, bur non-blank characters too, because a tab inserts not
a fixed number of spaces but enough spaces to the next tab stop. You get
fields that don't match when characters overlap a tab stop.
Regards.
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