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Coding style is a set of guidelines that helps readability and understanding of the source code.

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What are the downsides of mixing tabs and spaces?

what is wrong with ...using tabs for indentation where everyone can set their own preferred width ...using spaces for aligning multi-line code where the width does matter Nothing's wrong w …
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Should I fully parenthesize expressions or rely on precedence rules?

The parentheses are semantically redundant, so the compiler doesn't care, but that's a red herring--the real concern is programmer readability and comprehension. I'm going to take the radical positio …