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Your point about my overuse of "many of us" is a good one, so I changed it to "I" in the comment you just replied to. Fair enough? But look, my real point here
by Stratoscope 10y ago
Your point about my overuse of "many of us" is a good one, so I changed it to "I" in the comment you just replied to. Fair enough?
But look, my real point here is that column alignment is detrimental in several ways, and indentation is a better way to illustrate your code structure - both for statements and expressions.
Using indentation instead of column alignment isn't a workaround for anything - it's just a more practical, readable, maintainable way to format your code. This question really has nothing to do with tabs or spaces.
- yAnonymous 10y agoI see the points for VCS and non-monospace fonts, minor as they may be, but readability is absolutely a matter of choice. While we're on the matter of user prefereces and numbers: Most style guides recommend spaces as lined out in my other post. >Google, Microsoft, Apache and NASA for C-family languages, Crockford and almost every other web-related style guide I've ever seen recommend the use of spaces. Apple is a notable exception. That doesn't make them right, but I'd like to know how you came up with the "many of us" in the first place, because there are far more developers who use spaces (https://ukupat.github.io/tabs-or-spaces/ https://ukupat.github.io/tabs-or-spaces/), and it's not even close.
- scrollaway 10y ago"Many of us" doesn't imply "a majority of us". This statement isn't contradictory and is backed up by the data you linked: "Many of us use tabs. Many of us use spaces. Some of us use form-feed.. bloody nutters!"