Spaces or tabs?

171 votes   by hboon   12 years ago   View on HN
If it didn't matter syntactically with the programming language and there isn't a style guide governing it, do you prefer spaces or tab(s)? Why?

Edit: clarifying here, I'm referring to the characters saved into the file. Specifically multiple ' ' or '\t'. Doesn't matter what you type. If you configure your editor to insert 4 ' ' for each time you press tab. You vote for space.

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