[Python-3000] C style guide

Charles Cazabon python at discworld.dyndns.org
Fri Mar 24 16:12:31 CET 2006


Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> 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.

Well, except for the fact that people who like 2-space indents and people who
like 8-space indents would then start to argue vociferously about how many
levels of indentation are acceptable given an 80-character-wide source file.

Charles
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