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    1 year ago

    The opposite is true, though. If you use tabs for indentation and spaces for alignment, you can adjust the tab width without destroying alignment. That’s the big benefit of the tabs-for-indentation-spaces-for-alignment mix.

    You can’t do that with only tab characters, you can’t even align stuff with tabs because it has variable width.