Decades of programming practise hasn't been able to settle this matter. There are just two rules you should follow: use whatever makes you feel comfortable, and second be consistent. Don't take a maintainance programmer into consideration unless you actually write code that someone will inherit. But even then, whatever you do, someone else will do differently. The maintainance programmer must adapt - that's why (s)he's a maintanance programmer. Just don't use extremes. An indent of 0 or 1 is too small. More than 8 is overdoing it. But 2 to 8 is used (well, perhaps with the exception of 7).

Personally, I tend to use a 4 character indend for languages that use braces to delimit blocks, and 5 characters that uses keywords to end blocks. But I've used a 2 character indent for more than a decade as well.

As for <TAB>s, <TAB>s have their place. That's "place", singular, not "places", plural. The place for <TAB>s is called Makefile.

Abigail

In reply to Re: The classical TAB issue by Abigail-II
in thread The classical TAB issue by Lorand

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