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From: Stuart Herbert <stuart@gentoo.org>
To: vapier@gentoo.org, Gentoo-Dev <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Some 'proper coding' notes for ebuilds
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 19:53:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200308031953.03414.stuart@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200308031448.28174.vapier@gentoo.org>

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On Sunday 03 August 2003 7:48 pm, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> historically all bash pieces of code have been taborized and if you look
> through the current tree, the vast majority are tabbed ...

Good for them ;-)

> the other reason i like tabs is we're looking at 1 byte vs 4 (or more) :)

Lots of laughter.  And how many extra pages on disk would be required if 
spaces were used instead of tabs? ;-)

Sorry, but your arguments aren't convincing me yet that

a) This belongs in the coding standards at all, and
b) That tabs are the way to do this

I guess I'm just a cantankerous old bugger, as we say over here ;-)

Take care,
Stu
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  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-03 18:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-03  2:29 [gentoo-dev] Some 'proper coding' notes for ebuilds Mike Frysinger
2003-08-03  2:34 ` Mike Frysinger
2003-08-03  2:38   ` Mike Frysinger
2003-08-03  2:50     ` Kumba
2003-08-03  3:04       ` Mike Frysinger
2003-08-03 15:23         ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-08-03 18:44           ` Mike Frysinger
2003-08-03 15:10     ` Mamoru KOMACHI
2003-08-03 15:40       ` Paul de Vrieze
2003-08-03 16:23         ` Mamoru KOMACHI
2003-08-03 16:27       ` Georgi Georgiev
2003-08-03 17:04         ` Mamoru KOMACHI
2003-08-03 15:30     ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-08-11 13:45     ` Patrick Kursawe
2003-08-11 14:58       ` Mike Frysinger
2003-08-03  5:31   ` Jason A. Mobarak
2003-08-03  4:56     ` Mike Frysinger
2003-08-03  6:11     ` Luke-Jr
2003-08-03 14:55   ` Stuart Herbert
2003-08-03 15:18     ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-08-03 18:07       ` Stuart Herbert
2003-08-03 18:48         ` Mike Frysinger
2003-08-03 18:53           ` Stuart Herbert [this message]
2003-08-03 20:27             ` George Shapovalov
2003-08-03 20:34               ` Stuart Herbert
2003-08-03 22:15                 ` George Shapovalov
2003-08-03 22:56                   ` Don Seiler
2003-08-08 15:21                     ` Anthony de Boer
2003-08-08 15:33                       ` Marius Mauch
2003-08-08 18:25                       ` George Shapovalov
2003-08-08 19:16                         ` Douglas Russell
2003-08-08 20:12                           ` George Shapovalov
2003-08-08 23:01                             ` Mike Frysinger
2003-08-10  2:58                             ` George Shapovalov
2003-08-03 22:19                 ` Aron Griffis
     [not found]             ` <20030803223541.05d10e90.spider@gentoo.org>
2003-08-03 20:43               ` Stuart Herbert

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