Mason James wrote:
check this link for hearty examples of 'tabs versus spaces' discussion, enjoy ;)
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=576936
for me, the above discussion eventually has a obvious conclusion, which is...
tabs have the possibility to be displayed in a whole bunch of different ways depending on what os/shell/editor/termtype/xterm/whatever combination you are using
and spaces dont,..
i think spaces continue to be the best 'lowest-common-denominator' choice for a big open-source project like koha,
I agree with the above article. TABs are metadata, not display data. They give the programmer and reader a reliable indication of the structure of a program through consistent indentation. It is quite trivial for any viewer to set TAB STOP = 4 (or whatever is agreed upon) and get a consistent presentation. But presentation != metadata.
FYI: heres the link http://tidy.sourceforge.net/
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