Re: perlstyle and portability

[Hugo <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>]

In <ylr9f076f1.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>, Russ Allbery writes:
:I agree that you pretty much have to start with choosing the
:same standard tab stops as everyone else, but I like to go a step further
:and encourage people to stop using tabs unless they're using an
:indentation style where every indentation is always a tab.

Certainly the 'every indentation is a tab' approach is what I use in all
code I write; the perl source code is the only area in which I do not get
to choose what width each indent will represent, and have to remember
each time that the code looks wrong simply because I haven't ':se ts=8'
yet.

Hugo

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Follow-Ups from:

Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@ActiveState.com>

References to:

Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@ActiveState.com>

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