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His reply included a dig against gnu make for making tabs mandatory, so I don’t think this was a “stance” as in taking a pro-tabs position. He simply, reasonably, thinks parsers should be able to deal with all types of whitespace.
Tabs suck, because you can’t rely on them for consistent spacing and formatting. Spaces always win out.
But 2 or 4 spaces?
Maybe we can compromise with 3?
Heretic!
