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Re:Tabs v/s Spaces: An analysis on why tabs are better by jtlien1 on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @12:17AM (#14600620)
I was learning make. I couldn't get the example in the Make book to work. Then someone explained that the line after a make heading HAD to begin with a tab. Nowhere was this explained in the book. Please, let us stamp out the tab which is a holdover from the IBM selectric era.
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Re:Tabs v/s Spaces: An analysis on why tabs are better by flukus on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @01:42AM (#14600972)
That's a good argument, but it's an argument against significant white space. Without knowing white space is significant you could have made the same error with spaces.
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