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Heretic! From the book of Linus [0], chapter one: > Tabs are 8 characters, and thus indentations are also 8 characters. There are heretic movements that try t
by enriquto 5y ago
Heretic! From the book of Linus [0], chapter one:
> Tabs are 8 characters, and thus indentations are also 8 characters. There are heretic movements that try to make indentations 4 (or even 2!) characters deep, and that is akin to trying to define the value of PI to be 3.
[0] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/coding-style.html https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/coding-style....
- jcelerier 5y agoof course PI isn't 3, it's 1 (from a distance)
- a1369209993 5y agoOnly if you're a cosmologist.[0] 0: http://xkcd.com/2205/ http://xkcd.com/2205/
- klyrs 5y agoCursed April fools update: tabs are now π spaces wide.
- giomasce 5y agoMath trivia: there are cases on which it is sensible, in sufficiently advanced mathematics, to define pi as 3 (or whatever other number). I don't use tabs, but if I'd say that the biggest advantage of using tabs is that everybody can configure their own editor to make them as large as they wish.