[ODE] Standard for formatting the code ?

[The Sukender]

I agree there are many "standards" for formatting code... but I'm afraid I 
disagree with you (John Miles) : tabs are better that spaces, it's not a 
matter of RAM/hard drive ! Because anyone who would like to indent more (or 
less) can do it with a reasonable editor (VisualStudio, DevC++, vi, emacs, 
eclipse...) by adjusting tab size (as long as you do not mix tabs and spaces 
!). Moreover, tabs are *designed* to indent... It's simple as this ! ;)

About line endings... well, I'm not as assertive as for tabs, but I think 
unix-style should be the standard (even as a Windows dev !), simply because 
SVN (or CVS) uses it internally. Anyway, your editor should be able to read 
transparently any line endings style. The problem that SVN updates sometimes 
result in files with mixed line-endings... (Here it could be interseting 
using parameters on SVN client to automatically switch to DOS/Unix/Mac-style 
endings).

Sukender


>Actually, it's always somewhat irritating to see Unix-style formatting in a
>source file.  Come on, guys, spend one byte per line to include a
>linefeed... and no tabs, please.  It's no longer 1979, and 4116s are about 
>a
>nickel apiece on eBay nowadays, if your system needs a RAM upgrade.