Applying the Linus Torvalds “Good Taste” Coding Requirement

Re:Applying the Linus Torvalds “Good Taste” Coding Requirement by clusmore on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @03:15AM (#12794521)

Sorry, I should have mentioned that I was not the GP. Even if you use spaces rather than tabs, the idea is the same. Do you mean something like the below? Note: \t represents tabbing (not necessarily the number of tabs, just spacing using tabs), and _ represents spaces.

  int f(int x,
  \t\t__int y) // one 4-width tab, pad with spaces
  {
  \t\t// do stuff;
  }

  int f(int x,
  \t\t\t\tint y) // one 8-width tab, whoops
  {
  \t\t\t\t// do stuff;
  }

In this case, you should not be using tabs, since logically you haven't entered a new block yet and as such should not be increasing the indentation. It should be

  int f(int x
  ______int y)
  {
  \t\t// do stuff;
  }

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Re:Applying the Linus Torvalds “Good Taste” Coding Requirement by solipsism on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @03:38AM (#12794624)

Even if you use spaces rather than tabs, the idea is the same

It's not, because there does not exist an editor that is smart enough to recognize that these 4 spaces are indentation tabs while these 4 spaces are spacing spaces. It's not impossible, but show me an editor that does it today (especially with C++) and I'll eat my hat :D

I agree with you that if you're using actual tabs for indentation it works fine.

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Re:Applying the Linus Torvalds “Good Taste” Coding Requirement by clusmore on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @03:41AM (#12794639)

>It's not, because there does not exist an editor that is smart enough to recognize that these 4 spaces are indentation tabs while these 4 spaces are spacing spaces.

Oh yes I see your point. All the more reason to use tabs for indentation and spaces for alignment. :)

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