Re: Indention - why spaces?

[Pete Zaitcev]

> IMHO and in my personal projects I use the following indenting rules:
> 
> 1) use TABs for _indentation_
> 2) use SPACEs for aligning
> 
> here is an exaple:
> 
><tab><tab>if (cond) {
><tab><tab><tab>dosometing;
><tab><tab><tab>printf("This is foo: '%s', and this bar: '%d'",
><tab><tab><tab>       foo, bar);

BTW, this practice is codified in Solaris developer's guidelines.
They even have a perl script called "hdrchk" which is run before
commits and tells about violations. Actually, the Sun requirement
is to have exactly 4 spaces, but it sounds a little too anal to me.

-- Pete