Tabs and spaces (style)

[Brett g Porter]

"Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk" <qrczak at knm.org.pl> wrote in message
news:slrn.pl.9eu6rl.bar.qrczak at qrnik.zagroda...
> Tue, 01 May 2001 19:27:03 +0000, Kenneth Loafman <ken at lt.com> pisze:
>
> > I'm just the opposite... why would anyone use tabs?  All a tab does is
> > screw up the alignment for anyone that has a different tab size set and
> > makes it very difficult to print, etc.
>
> Why would anyone use a different tab size than 8?
...because research has shown that programmers are more effective when an
indent width between 2 and 4 characters is used? (actual citation here on
c.l.py about a year or so, ago -- too lazy to look it up now. Good cause to
celebrate groups.google.com bringing another few years of archive online the
other day...).

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