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From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
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Subject: Re: Indention - why spaces?
To: wichert@wiggy.net (Wichert Akkerman)
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 12:49:33 +0000 (GMT)
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> Well, I disagree: http://www.wiggy.net/rants/tabsvsspaces.xhtml

In my opinion, indentation in any form is irritating.

I find a left hand margin that jumps around, and in deeply nested
loops effectively makes a 132 column terminal in to an 80 column
terminal, completely pointless.

Overall, it doesn't help me to follow the program flow at all, if I
have to scroll excessively just to see lines that would be visible
without scrolling if only there were not ~40 blank columns on the
left hand side of the terminal.

John.
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