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This has been my favourite part of the entire stream, didn't expect factions forming at all!
by dddanmar 9y ago
This has been my favourite part of the entire stream, didn't expect factions forming at all!
- wernercd 9y agoYou don't expect factions? Religious wars have been raged over tabs vs spaces... tab is 2, 3 or 4 spaces... bracket on this line vs the next... Factions are normal and I would expect them to coalesce, polarize and get more extreme over time.
- Sol-Savage 9y agoAhh, fighting. The ultimate form of togetherness.
- Liru 9y agoOkay, I understand the reasoning for most of these choices, but what kind of barbarian argues that a tab should be 3 spaces?
- sergiotapia 9y agoI don't get that war - configure your editor to convert your tabs to spaces. Precision.
- zaphar 9y agoAh, but then you commit and someone else pulls the source code down and their carefully crafted N space per tab setting is now worthless since you decided how long tabs should be for them. Then they post an angry rant on some mailing list about how forcing tabs to spaces forces people with various reading disabilities into a tabstop setting that makes it hard to read. And before too long it's devolved into the same old Tabs vs Spaces debate.
- tokenizerrr 9y agoBefore that, your diff looks ugly and you generate tons of merge conflicts by useless indentation changes.
- sergiotapia 9y agoBut... your team just enforces a style. No debate. Two spaces for Ruby I've seen almost everywhere. Two for Elixir, same. Go has go fmt. This hypothetical of different spaces is killed before it happens.
- zaphar 9y agoHaving a style ends the debate yes. Configuring your editor to automatically replace tabs with spaces does not end the debate. It starts it.
- NTripleOne 9y agoYou mean convert spaces to tabs, right? ...right?!