From: Francois Berenger <francois.berenger@inria.fr>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Coding style: mixing tabs and spaces in indentation
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 10:18:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <568B8A7C.60904@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160105091224.GA10087@pl-59055.rocqadm.inria.fr>
On 01/05/2016 10:12 AM, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am wondering whether there are some guidelines that have been proposed
> regarding the way OCaml code should be presented?
>
> More specifically: am I correct that it is considered not such a good
> practise to mix tabs and spaces in code indentation? And if so, are
> there objective reasons for that?
There are famous hackers who promote the spaces only indentation technique:
https://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html
> It seems Emacs is configured to do that (mixing tabs and spaces) by
> default, can anybody confirm?
>
> Thanks a lot for any hint!
>
> Sébastien.
--
Regards,
Francois.
"When in doubt, use more types"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-05 9:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-05 9:12 Sébastien Hinderer
2016-01-05 9:18 ` Francois Berenger [this message]
2016-01-05 9:34 ` David MENTRE
2016-01-05 9:55 ` Raphaël Proust
2016-01-05 13:46 ` Christophe Troestler
2016-01-05 15:36 ` Drup
2016-01-05 15:42 ` Simon Cruanes
2016-01-05 21:25 ` Hendrik Boom
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