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by marssaxman 333 days ago
tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment
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Meanwhile, I'm trying to get away from languages where whitespace has semantics.
It's not about semantics at all. whitespace has (virtually) no semantics in C or C++, but there are few programmers who would feel comfortable reading such code without the suggestive hinting that indentation provides.
Very few where you can delete or insert whitespace at will, (even if only in the middle of 'identifiers').

I am fine with a (single) space being an important part of syntax, just don't use more than 1 please.