Tabs -vs- Spaces: Tabs should have won.

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Thorsten Kampe wrote:

> * Andrew Berg (Sun, 17 Jul 2011 05:02:22 -0500)
>> I still don't understand. Whitespace to the left of an assignment to
>> signify an indent and whitespace around operators to align values (in
>> a multi-line assignment) are not the same.
> 
> When I'm (consistently, of course) indenting code, I'm aligning it. When
> I'm aligning code, I do this by indenting it, see for instance...
> 
> firstvariable = 11
> variable      = 111
> 
> firstvariable = 22
> variable =      222
> 
> The second "=" and the "222" is indented.

You might want to check your English dictionary.  Indenting is commonly 
understood in typography as "To begin (a line or lines) at a greater or less 
distance from the margin"¹.  In particular, in computer programming it 
usually means that there is, at most, whitespace on the left of the text.²  
In that sense, the above is _not_ indentation (or indenting), as neither 
"variable" nor "variable =" consist only of whitespace.  It is only 
aligning.³

HTH

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¹ <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/indenting>
² <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indent_style>
³ <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aligning>
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