> Tabs are 8 characters, and thus indentations are also 8 characters. There are heretic movements that try to make indentations 4 (or even 2!) characters deep, and that is akin to trying to define the value of PI to be 3.
Math trivia: there are cases on which it is sensible, in sufficiently advanced mathematics, to define pi as 3 (or whatever other number).
I don't use tabs, but if I'd say that the biggest advantage of using tabs is that everybody can configure their own editor to make them as large as they wish.
> Tabs are 8 characters, and thus indentations are also 8 characters. There are heretic movements that try to make indentations 4 (or even 2!) characters deep, and that is akin to trying to define the value of PI to be 3.
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