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Michael A. Smith wrote: |
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> Actually I don't like spaces for indentation at all. A tab character and a |
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> space character take the same number of bytes, so it takes two-to-eight |
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> times |
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> as much space per indentation to store the same indentation as a single tab |
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> character. On the average project that can add up to several kilobytes of |
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> difference. Furthermore, it completely _prevents_ collaborators from |
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> enjoying a |
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> bit of customization as to the amount of indentation. If I like my |
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> indentation |
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> to be two spaces, and you like yours to be four, then we can each set |
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> our text |
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> editors that way and continue to happily share code that uses tabs for |
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> indentation. |
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> I disagree with both PEP8 and Gentoo SOC styles on the matter. I would |
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> love it |
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> if someone could explain to me the actual benefit of using spaces over |
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> tabs. |
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FWIW, I feel the same way. |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |
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