From: David MENTRE <dmentre@linux-france.org>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Coding style: mixing tabs and spaces in indentation
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 10:34:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <568B8E36.80409@linux-france.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160105091224.GA10087@pl-59055.rocqadm.inria.fr>
Hello,
Le 05/01/2016 10:12, Sébastien Hinderer a écrit :
> I am wondering whether there are some guidelines that have been proposed
> regarding the way OCaml code should be presented?
Here is an old documentation but a good starting point:
http://caml.inria.fr/resources/doc/guides/guidelines.en.html
> More specifically: am I correct that it is considered not such a good
> practise to mix tabs and spaces in code indentation?
Yes (and not only for OCaml).
> And if so, are
> there objective reasons for that?
Depending on user, tab size configuration is different (from 2 to 8 or
more spaces). So another user editing a code is going to see a different
code layout and break the previous layout when editing it.
Tab should probably be avoided in all coding environment except for very
specific required cases like Makefiles.
Best regards,
david
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-05 9:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-05 9:12 Sébastien Hinderer
2016-01-05 9:18 ` Francois Berenger
2016-01-05 9:34 ` David MENTRE [this message]
2016-01-05 9:55 ` Raphaël Proust
2016-01-05 13:46 ` Christophe Troestler
2016-01-05 15:36 ` Drup
2016-01-05 15:42 ` Simon Cruanes
2016-01-05 21:25 ` Hendrik Boom
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