Jon-Eirik Pettersen wrote:
Daniel Schierbeck wrote:
Hello there!
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...
One reason is that a space is a space and will allways be a space. A tab
may be 5, 3 or whatever spaces depending on the editors configration.
When more than one developer is developing on a project they will see
the indenting differently when using tabs.
that's indeed usually it. However, remember that both a space and a tab
are actually only a single character, so if you're looking at the amount
of space both take, it's exactly the same. However, when indenting with
3 spaces instead of a single tab, then your code-size WILL increase, and
will include 3x more "space content" than it used to :)
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