A commonly adhered to coding style is to use a consistent number of spaces for indentation within code. e.g., 2 or 4 spaces.
However, it appears that much of the JStorm code uses tab characters instead. Using tabs has various issues. e.g.,
the lines of code appear overly wide in browsers since they usually default to using 8 monowidth character positions to represent the tab character.
issues with using diff and other UNIX command-line tools when you have a mixture of tab-based indentation with space-based indentation (which is inevitable)
Here are a few articles outlining various reasons to not use tabs:
A commonly adhered to coding style is to use a consistent number of spaces for indentation within code. e.g., 2 or 4 spaces.
However, it appears that much of the JStorm code uses tab characters instead. Using tabs has various issues. e.g.,
Here are a few articles outlining various reasons to not use tabs: