[wp-hackers] Please, please PLEASE use tabs instead of spaces!

David House dave at xmouse.ithium.net
Mon Aug 30 16:39:28 UTC 2004


Quoting smea gol <logicus at gmail.com>:

> Spaces look more uniform though, while tabs are often set differently
> on different editors.

So? The owner of the editor would prefer the indentation to be displayed at a
distance that works for him/her: this is their tab length.

> Also, occasionally when changing the
> reindentation - you'd have to go back and add spaces anyways - since
> tabs are set at a certain distance.

Not entirely sure what you mean, but tabs are certainly good enough to cover
every type of situation.

> The php parser ignores spaces anyways, so it really isn't that big of a
> deal.

Still a reduction in filesize, if not in parse speed.



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