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You forgot a few "language standards" :-) PHP PSR says "4 spaces", Go says "full tabs", Lisp says "2 spaces", and I'm sure I forgot some.

Florian Margaine
– Florian Margaine

2013-06-13 13:43:40 +00:00
Commented Jun 13, 2013 at 13:43
"preferred" is not "mandatory". So there can be debate for python too. According to pep8, what is not debatable is 1) alignment (not identation) must be with spaces, and 2) indentation must be either only spaces, or only tabs.

ederag
– ederag

2018-08-16 11:42:43 +00:00
Commented Aug 16, 2018 at 11:42

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