FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>]

> From: Castellano, Nicholas [mailto:Nicholas_Castellano AT acml.com]
> Sent: October 28, 2002 10:02 AM

 [tabstops: 8/5/none]

> I don't think this is a matter of taste.
> 
> I don't understand why we would want to insist on enforcing 
> that users must
> reconfigure their terminals to work on or even to casually 
> peruse our code.

In the first place, my good man, that *is* a matter of taste.  Anything that
affects the presentation of the source code and does not affect the running
of the system is a matter of taste.  Let us at least acknowledge there are
no technical merits to debate here.  

"reconfigure their terminals"?  I've been editing code for 20 years and I
don't know how to reconfigure my teminal.  I set my tabstop according to my
preference, unless the project mandates differently.  I should worry about
someone who wants to "casually peruse our code" but won't set his terminal
to, oh, 90 or 132 characters wide?  Really, this is a capital lame argument.


And, Nick, you don't agree with it yourself.  Earlier you've suggested tabs
of 2 and 4.  Lots of us would be happier with 4.  

What I think is especially harmful is the way you're going about this.  I
would have thought you would want to represent the consensus opinion in that
file, not your own.  And surely you'd want Brian's assent, which last I
heard wouldn't seem likely, without tabs.  

Don't you think we have an interest in comity, too?  

--jkl


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