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Subject: Re: My whitespace style
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David Kelly wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:46:26AM +0200, deeptech71@gmail.com wrote:
>> Tabs are better, because they allow the programmer to specify the
>> desired width, and is dynamically changable at any time.
> 
> Spaces are better because they let the author specify the formatting and
> not left to some other re-interpretation.

And indeed they should used where formatting is important. However, 
C/C++ indentation is not of this nature.