Tabs are objectively better than spaces - gomakethings.com
Tabs are objectively better than spaces - gomakethings.com
Yesterday, I shared some spicy takes. A few were particularly controversial—most notably, that I correct Gif the correct way (with a soft G)—but I also got a lot of emails asking me to elaborate on a few of them. Today, I wanted to talk about how tabs are objectively better than spaces. This won’t t...
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This is a holy war that I will gladly fight again and again! I can't believe that soft tabs are more popular, especially in python!
That is because they are superior.
spatium vult.
Python noob here. I thought you were only supposed to use spaces with python and tabs would give you indentation errors?
Tabs work fine, you aren't allowed to mix, indentation must be consistent.
Actually I think you can technically mix. They have a "conversion factor". But don't, because then the code will look like crap on any other tab size (defeating the point of using tabs in the first place)
I think it would be better that each line needs to start with the exact same bytes to be considered within the same indent level. But I don't think that is the decision Guido made.