Tabs versus Spaces in Source Code

Sybren Stuvel sybrenUSE at YOURthirdtower.com.imagination
Wed May 17 04:00:51 EDT 2006


Duncan Booth enlightened us with:
> In particular a common convention is to have indentations at 4
> spaces and tabs expanding to 8 spaces.

Aaaw that is SO ugly! Sure, it displays correctly on systems that have
tab stops every 8 spaces given a monospaced font, but that is about
all that is positive about that.

Sybren
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