> If you use spaces to indent code, or in any way rely on a fixed width font to "line things up", you have a fundamental misunderstanding.
As long as the limitations of lining things up "exactly" are avoided, spaces shouldn't be any different than whatever way comes from true understanding.
My take on it is that (most) code isn't a picture, so drawing with it (alignment especially) is missing the point that code is a form of text instructions.
If anything, the editor should "render" the text in a form that is pleasant to the eye, divorcing the meaning from the presentation.
Lining up things too much is a "works for me" way of baking presentation into the data, where the writer assumes that because it looks good o their setup, it will look well for the reader too.
Similarities can be seen to building web pages on tables, sending around Word documents, or hard-wrapping emails.
> If you use spaces to indent code, or in any way rely on a fixed width font to "line things up", you have a fundamental misunderstanding.
As long as the limitations of lining things up "exactly" are avoided, spaces shouldn't be any different than whatever way comes from true understanding.