Misuse of <tab>

max max at nospam.com
Wed Jul 30 13:25:05 EDT 2003


> You're quite right - mixing spaces and tabs when indenting is
> not the thing to do. In fact, it's warned against in a number of
> places. The recommended practice is to use spaces, and
> avoid tabs completely.
> 
> I think you'll find that all the modules in the standard library
> use spaces exclusively.
The problem with spaces is that you need to do 5 times the work of a tab 
to get decent-looking indentation :).





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