But historically, tabs were are also rendered on screen as 8 spaces.
This is no longer true, since tabs are often 4 spaces by default. And
for this very reason, today it is better to use spaces because that is
the _only_ way to format code so it looks the same in less, Emacs, joe,
vi, MSVC, Zend
As this was crossposted to phpdoc, I consider it a question for
phpdoc too. We use one space for XML indentation and 4 spaces
for PHP codes in examples, no tabs. This is for phpdoc. And it
is documented in the phpdoc howto.
Yes, i wanted to explicitly check each.
have we ever decided on this? in our code do we go for tabs or spaces? Is
there a style guide anywhere on this?
Tabs, they've been used historically.
As this was crossposted to phpdoc, I consider it a question for
phpdoc too. We use one space for XML indentation and 4 spaces
for PHP codes in
