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I don't understand why and don't know when spaces were started to be used for indentation. It never made sense for me. Your code editor surely supports setting
by hawski 4y ago
I don't understand why and don't know when spaces were started to be used for indentation. It never made sense for me. Your code editor surely supports setting tab width if you are not happy with the default.
If the answer is vertical alignement I will weep and offer pity, but no sympathy. Even if that is the case you can still indent with tabs and aligns with spaces if you like to torture yourself, others and your RCS' history.
- lanstin 4y agoI have preferred spaces to tabs since the mid nineties because everyone sees it the same. With tabs people use 2 4 and 8, which can make my tendency to over indent code cause more trouble. I will say I have been doing go recently and have been forced into tabs and camelCase, and have found consistency really is better than The Right Way. For make, since using protobufs and code gen and being allergic to checking generated code in, have found make to be nicer than I remember it.
- burnished 4y agoIm no historian but I suspect white space sensitive languages influenced the desire to drop a white space character.