Re: tabs in source code

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From: Sean Conner
Subject: Re: tabs in source code
Date: 01:13 on 20 Jun 2006
It was thus said that the Great A. Pagaltzis once stated:
> * Smylers <Smylers@xxxxxxx.xxx> [2006-06-20 00:20]:
> > Also, I'm not that bothered how big indentation levels are, but
> > I do care that source code lines don't exceed 80 characters: I
> > want them to fit in a standard size terminal, to be readable in
> > an e-mail message, to be able to run diff on code and not find
> > the lines are so long that it takes a dedicated 'Where's
> > Wally'[*0] watcher to spot where the actual differences are.
> 
> I never understood this.
> 
> I tried to follow the rule for a long time, but I found that when
> a line is 200 characters long, you either did something wrong and
> should break it up into a few separate steps, at which point the
> matter solves itself. Or it really has to be 200 characters long,
> in which case all attempts to fit it into 80 column lines are
> contortions that serve no other purpose than to distract while
> reading but particularly while writing.

  XSLT anyone? [1]  There are quite a few lines I wrote in XSLT that exceed
200 characters (even if flush left, they would *still* be in excess of 200
characters).

  -spc (But once having written the XSLT files, it's now trivial to add
	pages and whole new subsections to my site ... )

[1]	Self-inflicted hate.  I thought it would be nice to store my website
	[2] as XML and use XSLT to convert it to HTML pages (mostly to
	autogenerate the nagivation links).  A purely functional programming
	language that is *more* annoying than Perl, Lisp *and* Forth put
	together.

[2]	For those that might be interested: http://www.conman.org/

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