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From: Ryan Breidenbach
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 12:20

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Tim Tyler <tim@tt1.org> wrote in message news:<GzDrr0.EqC@bath.ac.uk>...
> In comp.lang.java.programmer Ryan Breidenbach <ryan_breidenbach@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> : Tabs suck. Peroid.
> 
> Tabs have the sometines-significant advantage of fewer keystrokes -
> especially when outdenting.

Yes, but almost all editors will allow you to place spaces instead of
tabs, still saving keystokes. You just save keystrokes without the
drawback of having tabs in your code.

> By all means ban them from the codebase - but I wouldn't write them off
> when editing - they can be useful.

Agreed, but as I said above, you can achieve the same without actually
inserting tabs into the code.

> Fortunately, numerous editors will let you swap between the styles when
> loading and saving - so you can have the best of both worlds.

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