Re: Tabs or Spaces?
| From: | Matthew Weier O'Phinney | Date: | Sun, 21 Nov 2004 21:09:32 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Tabs or Spaces? | ||
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* Daniel Schierbeck <dasch@ulmail.net>:
> There seems to be some tendency towards using spaces instead of tabs
> when indenting PHP code - personally i can't come up with any reason not
> to use tabs. I was just wondering if any of you freakees had some sort
> of explanation...
Most likely due to PEAR standards:
http://pear.sourceforge.net/en/standards.php
I'm not sure what the rationale was behind using spaces instead of tabs,
but it's a standard I've seen in perl as well; it's not entirely unheard
of.
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