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[Dufflebunk <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>]

        I'm mostly to blame for those tabs. When I rewrite a lib I usually use
tabs rather than spaces because hitting the space bar 12 times or the
backspace 12 times isn't my idea of fun for indentation. 

        A consistent coding style in sorcery would be nice, but due to a lack
of something written out on what this style is, and a lack of time to
code in it, it's not that way. There is (or was) a draft document on the
wiki on what we wanted the style like in a rewrite.

        It's easy to maintain the same coding style if you're the only one
writing the code. It's hard to maintain if there are several people. 

On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 10:45, Jason Flatt wrote:
> This is a /really/ minor point, but I just thought I'd bring it up to find 
> out 
> where I/we stand on the issue.
> 
> When I first got into Sorcerer 1.5 years ago, one of the big things people 
> lauded Kyle about was how he wrote and spaced his code and how it made it 
> so 
> much more readable.  I personally could see some benefit to the way Kyle 
> had 
> coded things, but I wasn't necessarily sure that his spacing was all /that/ 
> wonderful.  :^)
> 
> However, it seems that we in Source Mage have gotten away from that coding 
> style.  It also seems to me that there really is /no/ coding style anymore 
> and it's possible to find code with single spaces, two or more spaces, tabs 
> and mixed spacing all through out the whole of Source Mage.  I certainly 
> don't want to hold up progress w/my Type A tendencies,  :^)  but I also 
> don't 
> want to hold up my progress by sticking to a coding style that no one else 
> is 
> using.
> 
> So, which is it?  Get uniform based on something someone has put into 
> place, 
> or just go willy-nilly doing whatever?