| ??? 10/14/08 13:26 Read: times |
#159047 - OT: That's why you should never use TABs! Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Per Westermark said:
A tab is a single character. It is the receiving end - your terminal - that makes the decision how wide to display the tab character. And that is precisely why you should never use TABs to lay-out your source code - becuase it is the application that displays the text that will interpret then. However, any decent programmer's editor will be able to do the translation as you enter the text, by inserting the appropriate number of space characters when you press the TAB button... |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| How many bytes will be written ?? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| return value? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| OT: That's why you should never use TABs! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| go ahead and use tabs | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| No, don't! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Any programmers editor | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| insert spaces for TABs | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Oh Yes ... the sprintf()... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| So here we go | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Wrong! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Valid warnings. But... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| No buts! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| maintability and engineering | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Not entirely true? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| You are correct | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Good example of counting dangers | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
Good interaction. | 01/01/70 00:00 |