mix of tabs and spaces on indentation

[Miles Bader]

Pedro Larroy <pedro.larroy.lists@gmail.com> writes:
> I was wondering if there's any good reason why there's a mix of tabs
> and spaces in the stl headers.

It's standard GNU practice (which was in turn based on common practice).
1 tab = 8 spaces.

It does save some file space (probably around 5-10% on typical source
files), but I think mostly it's a somewhat arbitrary convention, like
all the others which mostly make up coding standards... :]

[To some degree it also reflects the fact that much GNU development is
done with Emacs, which handles indentation and conversion between tabs
and spaces transparently.]

-miles

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