On Nov 21, 2004, at 4:30 PM, M. Sokolewicz wrote:
Jon-Eirik Pettersen wrote:
Daniel Schierbeck wrote:
Hello there!
There seems to be some tendency towards using spaces instead of tabs
when indenting PHP code - personally i can't come up with any reason
not to use tabs. I was just wondering if any of you freakees had
some sort of explanation...
One reason is that a space is a space and will allways be a space. A
tab may be 5, 3 or whatever spaces depending on the editors
configration. When more than one developer is developing on a project
they will see the indenting differently when using tabs.
that's indeed usually it. However, remember that both a space and a
tab are actually only a single character, so if you're looking at the
amount of space both take, it's exactly the same. However, when
indenting with 3 spaces instead of a single tab, then your code-size
WILL increase, and will include 3x more "space content" than it used
to :)
Who cares?
-ryan
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