I hate you all

[Michael Torrie]

On 04/05/2013 11:53 PM, Ian Kelly wrote:
>> The new rules may look flexible at first sight, but the net effect they have
>> is they push me to use non-default tab size (which is not good),
> 
> What makes that not good?  There is no law anywhere that says tabs are
> 8 characters.  That's just an arbitrary amount that looked appropriate
> to the people designing the first teletypes.

Ahh but assuming tabs are the equivalent of 8 spaces can save 7 bytes
per tab character in the source code!  Think of the savings.