The problem with this is that if you have added tab indenting to line up with a certain character in the line above, the length of the tab character would affect where the text on the next line is actually placed, depending on individual users&#x27; preferences. Spaces are uniform and standard length.<p>I believe this is the only real argument against tabs. I&#x27;d prefer to use tabs because that&#x27;s exactly what they were designed for, however this use case is fairly prevalent in programming so it can&#x27;t be ignored.