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.
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:
>>>deffrobnicate_all(arr):>>>for item in arr:>>> frobnicate(item)
Tabs are better than spaces
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.
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)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.