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Re:Applying the Linus Torvalds “Good Taste” Coding Requirement by solipsism on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @03:38AM (#12794624)
Even if you use spaces rather than tabs, the idea is the same

It's not, because there does not exist an editor that is smart enough to recognize that these 4 spaces are indentation tabs while these 4 spaces are spacing spaces. It's not impossible, but show me an editor that does it today (especially with C++) and I'll eat my hat :D

I agree with you that if you're using actual tabs for indentation it works fine.

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Re:Applying the Linus Torvalds “Good Taste” Coding Requirement by clusmore on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @03:41AM (#12794639)
>It's not, because there does not exist an editor that is smart enough to recognize that these 4 spaces are indentation tabs while these 4 spaces are spacing spaces.

Oh yes I see your point. All the more reason to use tabs for indentation and spaces for alignment. :)

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