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Tabs are objectively better than spaces - gomakethings.com (gomakethings.com)

submitted 1 year ago by mac to c/programming

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You might not understand how to do it properly so here's the idea:

Tabs will let you reach the indentation level of the current block, then from here, you'll use spaces to align stuff property. Here's an example, where >••• are tabs (I'm exaggerating alignment for the sake of the example) :

>•••if (condition1 == true
>••• || condition2 != false)
>•••{
>•••>•••struct ident people[] = [
>•••>•••>•••{
>•••>•••>•••>•••.name   = "bob",
>•••>•••>•••>•••.pubkey = "value1",
>•••>•••>•••},
>•••>•••>•••{
>•••>•••>•••>•••.name   = "alice",
>•••>•••>•••>•••.pubkey = "value2",
>•••>•••>•••}
>•••>•••];
>•••>•••secureConnection(people[0].name, people[0].pubkey,
>•••>•••                 people[1].name, people[1].pubkey,
>•••>•••                 CRYPTO_ALGO_DEFAULT);
>•••}

As you can see, everything will stay correctly aligned as long as it's within the same block.