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On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 5:34 AM, Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> wrote: > Perl Best Practices suggests that tabs be expanded in Perl source, for a > number of reasons. I often run into similar issues in C source. And I > think others have complained too. I agree with Damian on this. > > Instead of making a big patch to do this, I suggest that we just change the > editor hints at the bottom of the files to expand tabs. Then, as lines get > changed in the files, they will conform to the new paradigm. > > I suggested this to rjbs some time ago, and he wanted to wait until early in > 5.17 to vet this, so here it is. If I understand this right, this would result in files having mixed-style whitespace. I think that would be a fairly bad thing. I don't think this is a good idea. LeonThread Previous | Thread Next