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Tabs in source code (was: features of Apache-Subversion server.)

From: Kenneth Porter <shiva_at_sewingwitch.com>
Date: 2006-08-15 02:42:55 CEST

On Wednesday, August 09, 2006 6:53 PM +0200 Tobias Herp
<tobias.herp@gmx.de> wrote:

> No; it means, you can do everything using the HTTP protocol (with http://
> urls instead of svn://), plus you can view the latest versions of any
> file in a web browser (using the same http:// urls).

This is also a good reason to avoid tabs in source code, at least those
intended to represent variable indentation. Web browsers have no standard
for how to represent a tab, and I suspect most use the old 8-column
teletype standard. If you use tabs in your source code to represent some
other indentation (say, 2, 3, or 4 columns) and you do sub-statement
alignment (like lining up parameters under the opening paren) then it's
going to look wrong in a web browser.

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