[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="spwhitton"
 subject="comment 1"
 date="2015-05-11T09:02:10Z"
 content="""
I'd be interested to hear your reasons for preferring tabs over spaces, if it's anything more than an aesthetic preference.

The [GHC trac](https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9230) suggests that it was turned on by default because beginners accidentally mix tabs and spaces and get very confused.
"""]]