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Linus Torvalds reiterates his tabs-versus-spaces stance with a kernel trap (arstechnica.com)
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[–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (4 children)

His reply included a dig against gnu make for making tabs mandatory, so I don't think this was a "stance" as in taking a pro-tabs position. He simply, reasonably, thinks parsers should be able to deal with all types of whitespace.

[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Tabs suck, because you can't rely on them for consistent spacing and formatting. Spaces always win out.

[–] Magnetar@feddit.de 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

But 2 or 4 spaces?

[–] Tomato666@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Maybe we can compromise with 3?

[–] Magnetar@feddit.de 0 points 6 months ago

Heretic!