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[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Good. Spaces and tabs for indentation should never be mixed in any language other than Whitespace.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Some people use tabs for indentation and spaces for alignment. It kind of gets the pros of tabs (user configurable indent-width) and the pros of spaces (alignment). That doesn't work in Python where you can't align stuff and the interpreter doesn't allow mixing tabs with spaces, but in other languages it is a possible style.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

There are no pros to tabs. Configure tabs to a number of spaces.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Raw adjust with tabs, fine adjust with spaces.

Don't laugh, people are actually doing that.