Re: perlstyle and portability

[Larry Wall <larry@wall.org>]

Andy Dougherty writes:
: When I am a visitor, I consider it polite to attempt to abide by the local
: customs.
: 
: The one systematic exception to the ts=8 setting in the perl distribution
: that I am aware of is Configure, which uses ts=4 throughout.  That's
: because Configure actually comes from a separate package (metaconfig) and
: ts=4 is what the metaconfig maintainer uses.

Which is kinda funny when you think about it, because I wrote metaconfig
originally, and I'm firmly in the ts=8 camp.

The history of nonstandard tabstops demonstrates that something can
simultaneously make logical sense and cultural nonsense.

Larry

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References to:

Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu>

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