thom blake computer ethics

Why I Indent with Spaces

As promised, I’m weighing in on another burning issue of 10 years ago:

I recently overheard the utterance “@thomblake No one has any good reason to like \s indent. Either you like \t, or you don’t care. It’s not life-and-death, but \t is clear win” (via isaacschlueter on Twitter). I assented, as I really only started using space-indent because it’s a best practice at my workplace. But on reflection, I really do have good reasons for space-indent, based on the way that I use indentation in code.

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