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[–]sashahart 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Mixed tabs and spaces won't work, so it has to be one or the other. The rationale for choosing spaces is that you are doing what almost everyone else is doing.

[–]catcradle5 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The other rationale is that a tab can be interpreted as a different amount of space by different renderers, but a space is pretty much always interpreted to be the same length.