Coding standards / spaces vs tabs

[Bron Gondwana]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 01:56:03AM -0500, Patrick Goetz wrote:
> On 10/20/2010 9:05 PM, Bron Gondwana wrote:
> >
> >P.S. Here's what I use in vim to make life worth living.
> >It makes tabs visible, and lets me indent blocks quickly
> >by 4 characters while creating the correct tabs.
> >
> 
> If everyone uses vim, then this problem is easily resolved: <:)
> 
>  set tabstop=3
>  set expandtab

3?  Why three?

Bron.