On November 27, 2002 04:28 pm, Medland, Bill wrote:
You are right; provided everyone sticks to 8-space tabs then it doesn't matter. But if one only uses spaces then it doesn't matter one way or the other. I merely offer this as a suggestion for people to consider.
Sorry Bill,
It wasn't directed at you (even though I realize now it looked that way). It was just my daily rant, and when I was writing, I remember an idiot PHB at a place I worked: on the first day he started he came to me: "What environment/editor are people using?" he asked me "Whatever they want: some use J Builder, other Emacs, I use vim, etc." "Oh, that _has_ to change!" he said immediately "Why?" I asked "Well, ..., because, ..., we have to have standards!" "Why?" "Because... eh,... so we don't have anarchy" "F*ck off!" I laughed, "Go mind your own business." But I was in a privileged position then, and I realized how become engulfed in this myriad of useless standards and procedures all over the place, yet people miss the important stuff most of the time.
So don't mind me, I just had to get it off my chest. :)))