Re: tab characters in the source code

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Op donderdag 09-04-2009 om 22:14 uur [tijdzone +0800], schreef Graham
Percival:

> Oh, certainly.  But I think it would *also* be stupid to create a
> programmer's edit, when vim is already perfect.  :P

True.  Let's just keep manually formatting everything.  I mean,
people's tastes differ for a reason.

This has the additional advantage that the programmer implementing a 
piece of code can leave her signature more easily, by using ever so 
slightly indentation variations.  Others will then know to stay away 
from code sections that they do not 'own', so to say.

> By the way, I *always* prefix LilyPond by an animal name when I
> introduce it in my published papers.  :)

Good.  Just picking a random animal for now -- until we settle for
zebra -- should work.

> Nah; Valentin will keep the legend of the Grumpy Developer alive
> in times to come.  Long after humanity has colonized distant
> stars, schoolchildren will be reading about the epic flamewars
> involving Achilles, Trojan Horses, and whether or not we should
> move all the CUTTLEFISH/LilyPond documentation into a wiki.

Brilliant!  Let's define the MOOSE/coding standards in an Opera!

Jan.

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