Edge Cases

The Tabs and Spaces of Outrageous Fortune

Andrew Pontious, with Wolf Rentzsch, asks the question developers ask when they have nothing else to talk about: tabs vs spaces? Also: braces styles, UniversalIndentGUI, and how Xcode handles indent levels.

Links:

• github/objective-c conventions
• Caramello Commercial « YouTube
• Maintenance and the Cocoa Slide « Edge Cases
• UniversalIndentGUI
• Uncrustify - Source Code Beautifier for C-like languages
• Atlassian SourceTree - Free Mac client for Git, Mercurial, and SVN
• Idle Time » Blog Archive » Tabs vs. spaces
• Uncle Jens’s Coding Tips via Wayback Machine
• Thought Palace
• Thoughts about large Cocoa projects « Brent Simmons
• Indent style « Wikipedia
• Code Insults, Mark I « Call Me Fishmeal
• reignOfError/Reign of Error/AppDelegate.m at master · apontious/reignOfError

Rejected Episode Titles:

• The Caramello Episode
• One Really Painful Commit
• If You Align Your Colons, You’re Hosed
• If You Align Your Colons, You’re Hoseyed
• Screw It, Spaces Forever
• If You’re Doing the Slide
• I’m Totally Against That
• A Long-Time Tabs Man
• Beaten Down, Beaten Down, Beaten Down
• The “Aghh” Effect
• Back in the Bad Old Days of Mac Programming