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The C standard treats all white space pretty much the same,
with the possible exception of white space at the end of a
physical source line (since some systems force fixed-length
records by blank-padding).

Other than that, any discussion probably belongs elsewhere.
However:

In article <42gpun$d1l@mujibur.inmind.com> <mfinney@inmind.com> wrote:
>All of the editors I have seen allow tabs to be [customized and] used
>or not. ... Getting people to USE these features can be problem, but
>that is different from not having the features available.

Actually, the problem is more that people *do* use the features,
which means that source layout is not portable.  (If someone codes
under proportially-spaced font, even non-tabbed layout may change
from one system to the end.)

(Fortunately, C does not require portable source layout.)
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