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Tabs instead of spaces.

• cake-rusk 1y ago
  Spaces have won already. It is the default setting across code editors now.
  • foofoo12 1y ago
    Would that mean it's good taste?
  • 000ooo000 1y ago
    If your code editor told you to use PHP, would you?
  • sparkie 1y ago
    Elastic tabstops are good taste. Tabs should tabulate. But limited editor support, and some implementations have poor performance. https://nick-gravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/ https://nick-gravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/
• aitchnyu 1y ago
  One user is able to fit more code into LLM context window since tabs take one token and spaces take 4. https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPTCoding/comments/15s62yl/save_30_of_your_tokens_and_fit_more_into_the/ https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPTCoding/comments/15s62yl/save...
  • cap11235 1y ago
    For one tokenizer, a couple years ago.
  • zahlman 1y ago
    Did these systems really not learn to recognize a run of four spaces as a single token, despite all the Python source code fed to them?