[Python-3000] C style guide

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Fri Mar 24 14:46:21 CET 2006


On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 19:41 +1200, Greg Ewing wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
> > That won't go away for me (Google's settings default to TWO-space
> > indents :-( ) but I agree with the 4-space indent -- eventually.
> 
> If we standardised on all-tabs, people could set their
> editors to display indentation however they wanted, and
> there would be no need to argue about how many spaces
> should be dancing at the head of a code line.

4 space tabs are evil, as are all-tab styles.  Everyone knows that a tab
is 8 spaces.  :)

-Barry

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 309 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/attachments/20060324/1ce12a3f/attachment.pgp 


More information about the Python-3000 mailing list