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Nah, 42 is good, but we only need 24 at the moment.

We're winning! Just a few more votes and we'll have a sufficient majority to elect spaces pope! heheh :)


I thought that was a downside to using a "pure spaces" approach, actually... but I guess...

As you noted, it ultimately depends on the coding standards of the project that you are working on, or the company that you are working for.


That is a visual indicator that they are actually one...

You're right. To be absolutely consistent such a standard has to define a number of spaces per indent level, similiar to the recommendation in Python's PEP 8 document. Of course, the difference is...

I note that PEP 8 recommends:
"Use 4 spaces per indentation level."


Ah, but I could just as easily state that: I can't believe so many of yall use tab characters...they frustrate me to no end...

I note that "spaces by default" is as effective a standard as "tab characters by default".


How can the indentation be off? The bad thing about the "pure spaces" approach is that you have to...

I generally stick to spaces for indentation and formatting of code. However, when it comes to the default, I do not care, since I always check the settings before coding on an editor that I have not...