Re: tab characters in the source code

[Hans Aberg]

On 9 Apr 2009, at 06:04, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

> > Programming standards for LilyPond call for avoiding the tab  
> > character.
> > We're free to choose whatever programming conventions we want for  
> > our source
> > code.
>
> I don't think it is a standard, but I would not mind making it a  
> standard.

Some years ago I suggested on some Bison that use two spaces instead  
of tabs. - The common Unix convention of 8 spaces per tab provides far  
to much indentation. I think perhaps it is used in GNU projects.

> Han-Wen
> (being trained to avoid tabs during daytime)

It is easier to use an editor that translates tabs into (say) 2  
spaces. It is good to have a "translate tabs into spaces" feature run  
over files.

(The worst thing I have encountered was the convention of mixing four  
spaces indentations with tabs-equal to 8 spaces, plus a program that  
failed the whole project if one typed it wrong - at the University  
here in Stockholm!)

  Hans