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tabs have never been a consistant thing. its basically just a certain amount of spaces. I can totally see why tabs would not be used.
Exactly, and by design: each user is allowed to set their own tab width and not mess everyone else up.
Like 8 space tabs? Go for it.
Want only 2-space indents? Just update your settings.
The semantic mean of a tab is "indent" - it should be up to each user what their idea of an appropriate indent width is.
I used to like you because of your username, but that ended today.
so be it.
Surely, as a human, you can work with me and recognize that the thing about tabs is that they can be adjusted to represent whatever number of spaces you like? The thing about spaces is that two spaces will always be two spaces wide. What benefit does that provide?
I mean I feel your arguing against yourself here. its more precise to specify using a space or two spaces or three spaces, etc. like in python the formatting is the structure becasue it does not use brackets and such. File formats are exactly like they sound. specific formats. consistancy is paramount.
I acknowledge that consistency is beneficial, but Python works with both tabs and spaces. The difference, in this context, is that if you like two spaces for indentation, but I like four, your code will always have sections of two when I look at it. I can make configurations that change it and so can you, but why is that needed?
Meanwhile, in this hypothetical, if we were to use tabs, you could set your tab to represent two spaces and I could set mine to represent four and we'd both be happy with the same, unchanged code.
yeah I see what you are saying but again I can see why consistancy would be given priority.
Consistency in how many indents used is very important.
Consistency in how many pixels that indentation takes up on the screen between two users is completely irrelevant.
Tabs give you consistency and simplicity, one tab per indent. We each decide how we want them to look on our screens and it doesnt matter if they don't look exactly the same.
What you probably mean though is alignment, which is not indentation. Tabs to indent, followed by spaces to align, gives every user the same alignment no matter what their tab-width is set to.