RE: Eu OpenSource Vision
- Posted by Martin Stachon <martin.stachon at worldonline.cz> Oct 01, 2001
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tone.skoda at siol.net wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Martin Stachon > To: EUforum > Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 6:29 PM > Subject: Eu OpenSource Vision > > > 2) Unite programing style and naming and formatting conventions. > I would suggest the standart RDS style, expcept that tabs would > be used for formatting instead of spaces. Optionally create a tool, > similiar to C "indent" to automatically reformat sources. > I was reading a lot about programming style last days, and I can explain > to you why having spaces instead of tabs for indentation is better: > > > if (one_v_do = 0) then -- No to_do pixel anymore. > -- We've looped all pixels of object. > .. > end if > In this example, you of course tabbed second comment so it will be > aligned with first comment. But when you view this file in other editor > which has different tab size, or if you change tab size in your editor, > it will be messed up. Second comment line will either be very to the > right or very to the left. > Yes, for this indenting are spaces better, but for indenting after "if .. then" or "for .. do" are better tabs Martin