Spaces or Tabs?

re: Spaces or Tabs?

Nikola Malovic — Thu, 29 May 2008 11:30:17 GMT

I think too this rule is kind-a-obsolete, but I don't think it is meant to forbids the use of the Tab key.

To me that rule is just recomendation that Visual Studio Tools\Options\Text Editor\C#\Tabs should have "Insert spaces" choosen, nothing else

re: Spaces or Tabs?

Alun Jones — Tue, 27 May 2008 18:35:43 GMT

It's clearly about time that source code editors ignored whitespace, too.

Indentation should be enforced by code content, rather than the number of spaces or tabs, so that every time a programmer opens a source file, they see the actual code, indented to their own preferences, rather than the textual representation of it, indented to someone else's.

If I write "if (x) { y; z; } else a; b; c;" you should see:

--begin--

if (x) {

} else

--end--

Whether you see this using tabs or spaces is immaterial, indentation should be displayed in the style selected by the programmer, and ignored by version control just as it is ignored by the compiler.

[Obviously, this isn't completely possible, as many preprocessor directives and macros will screw up indentation by introducing opening or closing braces]

re: Spaces or Tabs?

PeterRitchie — Mon, 26 May 2008 18:29:52 GMT

Diff tools added ignore whitespace years ago.

re: Spaces or Tabs?

Aaron — Mon, 26 May 2008 18:20:12 GMT

I think it matters more when you are doing source control diffs. When users pick different tab/space settings in the IDE it makes a lot of noise for a manual merge.

Microsoft's new C# style analyser and indents

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