Re: [Chicken-users] [wish list] chicken-install: show available eggs, upgrade all installed eggs?

[Peter Bex]

On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 10:25:27PM +0900, Alex Shinn wrote:
> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Peter Bex <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > With Lisp/Scheme code, the only sensible indentation style really is
> > spaces.  With braces-like languages like C it makes sense to use tabs
> > if used consistently, but even there it's a good source of flamewars.
> 
> You get exactly the same problem in C with nested function
> applications:
> 
>   foo(some_long_function_call1(...),
>         some_long_function_call2(...),
>         ...);

Yeah. You can still use tabs to align things within block though!
To get completely consistent results you'd need to indent using tabs
up till you're aligned with foo and use spaces to indent the arguments.

I think the TabsAreEvil page describes this too.

Cheers,
Peter
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