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I've grown so tired of sarcasm. Online and in real life people are often saying the exact opposite of what they mean. We have to pick up the sarcasam to truly understand.
sarcasm is one of the true idiosyncrasies of humanity that differentiates us from the machines. Embrace it.
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> Don't think you make hiring decisions based on tabs vs spaces? I actually ask candidates "spaces or tabs?" in every single interview. I don't really care what the response is in regard to the holy war, and it doesn't mean anything on its own, but having SOME thought out response can be a GREAT indicator of how well versed someone is in general. e.g. I'm going to think way more highly of someone that says "tabs, bec…
> "whatever my editor sets it to". Whats wrong with this? I just accept the defaults. Whether that is what the current project demands or what the editor defaults to. Why waste my time over these things?
There's your answer: if letting your editor do whatever and not caring to 'waste time over these things' means you've committed a bunch of code ignorant of the convention respected by the rest of the project, that's not that great.
Tabs vs. spaces. 2 vs. 4 spaces. It's an endless discussion. We finally compromised and we're using 3 tabs.
If we would all just agree to set our tab width to 1 space then we could live in harmony...
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wait, but that defeats the purpose of both, right? if you change the width of your tabs, then the hard-spaced multi-line parts will no longer align.
No, your editor just inserts as many tabs as the initial line had, then spaces over appropriately. This will align properly with any tab setting. I think the real problem with tabs is that so many people use weak editors.
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Your issue is why you see people say "tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment." If you're trying to vertically align text, use tabs to keep it at the same indentation as the thing you're aligning to, and use spaces to adjust to vertical alignment. This will keep the vertical alignment regardless of the preferred width of the tab.
So for long lines to move an argument over to align with its predecessor on the previous line, like int f() { int someVariableName = myFunctionCall(expr(5), // ...you're saying line A is indented with tabs, and line B with spaces? Because that will misalign if your tab setting isn't the same. Or are you saying that both A and B are indented with spaces? Then what about line C, which will misalign with A and B if your…
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So for long lines to move an argument over to align with its predecessor on the previous line, like int f() { int someVariableName = myFunctionCall(expr(5), // ...you're saying line A is indented with tabs, and line B with spaces? Because that will misalign if your tab setting isn't the same. Or are you saying that both A and B are indented with spaces? Then what about line C, which will misalign with A and B if your…
You indent line A with tabs. You use tabs to line the start of line B up with the start of line A (indentation) and then use spaces to move it the rest of the way to where you want it (alignment).