tabs do WHAT?

[Cameron Laird]

In article <slrn895gp2.rar.kc5tja at garnet.armored.net>,
Samuel A. Falvo II <kc5tja at garnet.armored.net> wrote:
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>Now try explaining brace-delimited constructs to a newbie:
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>Everything you want done under the IF statement needs to go inside these
>things called Braces. You need these braces to group the things you want
>done to treat them as a unit.  My recommendation is to write your code like
>this, but you don't have to.  Just make sure, whichever style you choose to
>write your code in, make it consistent so you'll know what you wrote two
>months ago:
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>	if( a == b )
>	{
>	   do this;
>	   then do this;
>	   then do that;
>	   and finally, do that.
>	}
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>I can absolutely guarantee a new-comer to programming, computer science
>major or otherwise, will have their head spinning with the latter
>description.  The former is a piece of cake, because _everyone alive today_
>writes outlines in almost exactly the same way, and in every way, they are
>whitespace sensitive.
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You forgot about the part where, if any more {-s and }-s
show up in the "do this" part, they have to balance.

Unless they're in quotes.

Except for ones in comments.

Or if they're themselves quoted, in some circumstances.
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