On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:45 AM, Rick Welykochy <rick@praxis.com.au> wrote:
May I assume then that the answer to tab stops is:
(*) yes, use them to indent
That doesn't seem to be historically the most preferred method. Here are some statistics (that are probably lying in some way): number of perl files in C4 with a line starting with at least one space: acm@arwen:~/koha/dev/C4$ ack --perl -cl "^\ +" . | wc -l 220 number of perl files in C4 with a line starting with at least one tab: acm@arwen:~/koha/dev/C4$ ack --perl -cl "^\t+" . | wc -l 96 Total number of lines in perl files in C4 that start with at least one space: acm@arwen:~/koha/dev/C4$ ack --perl -cl "^\ +" . | cut -d: -f2 | awk '{ total += $1 } END { print total }' 28890 total number of lines in perl files in C4 that start with at least one tab: acm@arwen:~/koha/dev/C4$ ack --perl -cl "^\t+" . | cut -d: -f2 | awk '{ total += $1 } END { print total }' 6475 I guess the POD blocks are probably throwing this off somewhat. I'm not really sure how badly, though. That's hard to count. ;) I think there are at least one or two contributors who use tab characters to indent their stuff. Most recent patches I've seen seem to use spaces, from what I can recall. -Andy