[oneeyedpigeon]

Tabs should never be used for lining things up, for that very reason. In your example, you've stopped 'indenting' and started 'aligning'. And it's only 'working' because "var " % 2 == 0; other language keywords will screw that up.

[Zikes]

Sounds to me like you're saying there's no objectively correct answer that works for all languages and situations, which I agree with.

[scrollaway]

There... is, actually. If you don't actually attempt to align the variable names, then what you're doing is "indenting items in a list", essentially.

In general, you should avoid aligning unless the readability gains are significant. Aligning things means that you end up re-aligning when you add or remove longer items. This increases maintenance and pollutes diffs (which also means code reviews and git logs).

[jahewson]

My editor aligns things for me - no effort at all.

[scrollaway]

You are creating effort for the people who review your code. On their behalf, please stop, it's tedious.