Who decided indenting with spaces was a good idea?

Re:Who decided indenting with spaces was a good idea? by jannotti on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @11:14PM (#9308454)

Because sometimes you must use spaces, because you are indenting a continuation line that should be indented to an exact spot with respect to the previous line (you're in the middle of an expression, you want to be at the start of an open parenthesis, etc).

Surely the suggestion in that case is not to carefully insert tab characters to the same indentation of the previous line, and then spaces for the rest, so that you have some tabs and some spaces on the continued line? Anything else fails if the tabs are set as "developer preference" on display, but that tabs + spaces on one line is incredibly fiddly.

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Re:Who decided indenting with spaces was a good idea? by amwmedia on Thursday April 02, 2015 @09:01AM (#9310391)

yeah, I would wonder why your continuation line has to line up perfectly with the previous one. When you start laying your code out so that everything is perfectly aligned to everything else, it just leads to headaches and heartbreaks when other developers don't share your passion for perfectly manicured code. :-)

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Re:Who decided indenting with spaces was a good idea? by digitalpacman on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @11:26PM (#9308501)

I dislike ever seeing this. Sounds too OCD

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