Tabs versus Spaces in Source Code

Ant antroy at gmail.com
Wed May 17 07:15:18 EDT 2006


> Not that it's relevant, but I've never actually encountered anyone who
> mixed tabs and spaces.. I've lived a sheltered life I guess.

It's not individuals using a mixture, but when working in a development
team of some kind. Consider person A who writes a file using spaces for
indent. Person B then edits that file, adding a few lines of code,
indenting using tabs. It could soon get messy!




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