[Bro-Dev] whitespace convention (tab vs. space)

Craig Leres leres at ee.lbl.gov
Thu Mar 17 15:29:24 PDT 2011


> Yeah. That's usually the problem. Since space<-->tab conversion depends
> on the tab-width that should be used. So I would not recommend do
> convert automatically it.

My suggestion is to balk when you attempt to and commit a change with
the leading whitespace that violates the policy.

And really: if anybody is using a tabwidth of other than 8, his/her code
already is messed up for the rest of us.

		Craig


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