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wait what (pawb.social)

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[–] Maestro@kbin.social 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's not difficult at all, and many editors and IDEs already support this, making the entire point moot. Just do whatever the style guide says. I'm into PHP and Python so for me it's spaces all the way.

[–] LaggyKar@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

How can it tell the difference between spaces used for indentation and spaces used for alignment, if you use the same character for both?

[–] coloredgrayscale@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

Maybe alignment more for the righthand side of assignments. If you have a block of variables with different name lengths, or within a constructor / function call.