necrotic — Sat, 04 May 2002 02:53:26 +0000

Oh wow! I love being the only one who does 2 spaces... It's just easier to do 2 spaces than 4 or a tab. And I use Notepad, so the tab is WAY to big. But I also double-enter blocks of code. Which makes it way easier to read.

Mark Hensler — Wed, 24 Apr 2002 04:35:04 +0000

I hate the way notepad has a tab width of 8 columns. Code with a lot of nested items can get pushed pretty far to the right.

Suzanne — Tue, 23 Apr 2002 20:30:15 +0000

I learned how to write rudimentary perl first, then JavaScript, and now I'm playing with PHP. Somewhere along the line I read that article and also the articles about where braces should go (in different languages) and I'm hopelessly addicted to using spaces instead of tabs (which is why I have the program set to replace tabs with spaces) -- if you go into another editor where the tab is set differently, you have a devil of a time with the code.

Mark Hensler — Tue, 23 Apr 2002 18:33:53 +0000

very good doc

Wil — Tue, 23 Apr 2002 08:28:37 +0000

LOL!

I personally use 4 spaces (well my editors sets this when I 'tab' anyhow) - because I code in Perl most often, I think this is 'right' => http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/pod/perlstyle.html .

I think the style and clarity of your code is amazingly important - so is proper annotation and comments. I've been in a situation before where you take over from someone's else's code, and if it's messy code it makes your job a hundred times harder!

Cheers

openmind — Mon, 22 Apr 2002 22:04:24 +0000

Gotta be one tab at a time 4 me. Only way I can keep track on what the hell I'm doing!

Plus its doesn't half help when you're trying to track down those pesky closing tags!

Mark Hensler — Mon, 22 Apr 2002 22:01:33 +0000

Oh, BTW... PHP's PEAR Coding Standards states, "Use an indent of 4 spaces, with no tabs."

Mark Hensler — Mon, 22 Apr 2002 21:58:07 +0000

This isn't fair!! :whine:

UNIX shell = 2 spaces
PHP, Perl = 4 spaces
VB = tabs

I also have my ASCII editor set to convert tabs to spaces. But I use M$ Visual Studio for VB, and I don't think they're advanced enough to include such a feature.

I voted 4 spaces because I use PHP the most.

mjames — Mon, 22 Apr 2002 19:34:26 +0000

Tabs for me. I also love tidy code - that's why I use an ancient editor to format my code (AOLpress).

Suzanne — Mon, 22 Apr 2002 19:02:48 +0000

I have my editor set to replace tabs with spaces, and the tab is set to 4. Can I answer both?

I love tidy code. Not only easier to troubleshoot, but easier to simplify. I tend to write it all out in long code as I'm building something, then gradually boil it down like a good spaghetti sauce to the right bits, automating and building functions and such as I go.

Having tidy code and comments REALLY helps that process.