A tab and a space have different semantics. Don't dumb things down, please! In Bash, for example, you need tabs for indented heredocs to avoid redundant leading

A tab and a space have different semantics. Don't dumb things down, please! In Bash, for example, you need tabs for indented heredocs to avoid redundant leading spaces, which could be problematic in some cases - that's why I always use tabs with Bash.