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		secondcoming on Jan 23, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why are we templating YAML? (2019) No, significant whitespace is the problem.

andybak on Jan 23, 2024 [–]

So - you're saying that mixing tabs and spaces in the same file is entirely unproblematic outside of languages with significant whitespace?

Are you sure about that?

secondcoming on Jan 24, 2024 | [–]

mixing tabs and spaces just makes code look bad visually. But when whitespace is significant it can change behaviour.

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