[Openmcl-devel] Tabs vs spaces in sources.

[Ron Garret]

On Jan 5, 2016, at 1:34 PM, R. Matthew Emerson <rme at clozure.com> wrote:

> 
>> On Jan 5, 2016, at 5:57 AM, Dmitry Igrishin <dfigrish at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I've noticed that Tabs with width 8 used in the sources of CCL. Is it
>> necessarily to follow this rule?
> 
>> (I ask because my Emacs replaces
>> tabs with spaces automatically upon saving while using the tabs
>> instead of spaces is a rare case nowadays.)
> 
> In new code, it doesn't matter.  If your editor automatically replaces all tabs everywhere in the file with spaces, thereby creating lots of meaningless, whitespace-only diffs that show up in svn annotate output and in other places, then I would not like that.

Spaces are better than tabs because that’s what the CCL IDE does when it auto-indents.

rg