Re: [cowiki-dev] Tabs vs spaces -- what's the downside?

Sy schrieb:

> I have heard some strong opinions on using spaces instead of tabs. 
> I've never understood this, because I've always assumed that everyone
> can use tabs and configure them neatly.

This may be right, if tabs where restricted to be used at the beginning 
of the line. But they may appear within a line, making neatly 
configuring impossible.
Example:
\t$oneVar\t = 'value';
\t$nextVar = 'value';
will look fine, when tabsize is 4 or 8 spaces, but not on 3 or 5 spaces.
So tabs are banned.

Niels