Tabs versus Spaces in Source Code

[Peter Decker]

On 5/15/06, Brian Quinlan <brian at sweetapp.com> wrote:

> The problem with tabs is that people use tabs for alignment e.g.
>
> def foo():
>    ->query = """SELECT *
>    ->  ->  ->   FROM sometable
>    ->  ->  ->   WHERE condition"""
>
> Now I change my editor to use 8-space tabs and the code is all messed
> up. Of course, a very disciplined group of people could be trained to
> never use tabs except to align with the current block level but, in
> practice, that doesn't work. Therefore tabs are bad.

And those of us who hate cutesy alignment like that think that people
who do it are therefore bad.

Spaces look like crap, too, when using proportional fonts.

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