Re:Tabs or Spaces? The Top Starred Repositories in GitHub An...
by brandonbloom on Saturday December 26, 2015 @07:52PM
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Notably, Go makes a few other decisions that help with this approach:
1) `go fmt` fixes up whitespace, and is fast enough to run on every file-save. Although this sometimes screws up my undo stack.
2) Spaces are still used for alignment, but...
3) Only tabs are used before the content of a line, and...
4) Only spaces are used throughout the content of a line.
The primary reason that I prefer spaces is that it means that I don't have to constantly look at hidden characters while editing. However, go fix's enforcement of the begin/intra-line separation of tabs and spaces alleviates that problem: If it's touching the left margin, it's a tab, otherwise, it's a space.
1) `go fmt` fixes up whitespace, and is fast enough to run on every file-save. Although this sometimes screws up my undo stack.
2) Spaces are still used for alignment, but...
3) Only tabs are used before the content of a line, and...
4) Only spaces are used throughout the content of a line.
The primary reason that I prefer spaces is that it means that I don't have to constantly look at hidden characters while editing. However, go fix's enforcement of the begin/intra-line separation of tabs and spaces alleviates that problem: If it's touching the left margin, it's a tab, otherwise, it's a space.