Re: Reformat all of src/

[John Yates]

On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 11:59 AM, John Wiegley <address@hidden> wrote:

If we were going to reformat all the sources, I'd rather we observe the rule
"never use tabs". I don't see what benefit they possibly offer.

Make files aside, is there any other justification for hard tabs besides compression?

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40

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years ago when

​my​

 only available language

​s were DEC​

assembler

​s​

a line

typically looked like:

    <ht> OPCODE <ht> OPERAND [ ',' OPERAND ]* <ht>+ ';' COMMENT

With identifiers limited to 6 characters and short comments tabs easily produced

50% compression.  In more modern languages I have to believe that the compression

is _much_ less.