Tabs and spaces (style)

Mark Jackson mjackson at wc.eso.mc.xerox.com
Tue May 1 23:35:38 EDT 2001


Courageous <jkraska1 at san.rr.com> writes:
> 
> >Your actions are inconsistent with your reasoning. If there is a
> >never-ending war, why enforce an action that only serves to fan flames?
> 
> Because, if one uses spaces, one can alway simply indent to the level
> of the original programmer, but if one mixes spaces and tabs, it all falls
> to hell in a handbasket.

Flagrant strawman, the quoted poster having made it quite clear that
s/he is talking about using tabs only.

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