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[+] Yearly1845@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tabs are literally designed for aligned indentation, and they're configurable for clientside viewing. There is no excuse for spaces. I don't care if your goddang function arguments line up once they spill out onto another line. You've got deeper problems.

[–] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tabs are designed for tabulation (hence the name), not indentation. The side effect is that a tab's length changes based on its position in a line, which is terrible for programming. If you use tabs in the Python REPL, it looks like this:

>>> def frobnicate_all(arr):
>>>     for item in arr:
>>>             frobnicate(item)

[–] spartanatreyu@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago

a tab’s length changes based on its position in a line

What does this even mean? A tab is a tab.

Tab's don't have multiple lengths inside a file, they all have the same length.

That's the point of tabs.