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On 21/05/2012 11:27, Leon Timmermans wrote: > 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. > > Leon > To be fair, that's already the case for most of the source files. I don't really like the idea of editor hints enforcing style. Like their name suggest, they are only hints. The end user can decide whether or not he wants to apply them (I don't). The only way out of this mess is an official style policy (whichever!) about what kind of spacing scheme is to be used in the source. Though I'm not really sure the incoming bikeshed really worths the trouble. VincentThread Previous | Thread Next