Not to start a format war, but I've never understood the tabs == bad camp. There are times when using tabs is foolish (mostly, intra-line aligntment), for example: 

$opt_a   = 1;   # this is option a
$obt_hoo = 1;   # this is option b

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All the whitespace there should be spaces, not tabs.

On the other hand, I love it when code I maintain uses tabs for leftmost indentation. This is because I know many people who like an 8-space indent, where as I (for example), much prefer a 4-space indent. I have colleagues that also like a 2-space indent (!). By using tabs for left-side indents, we can all have our way by simply configuring our editor.

What's the argument against doing this?

In the case at hand, I would do: 

if (
    condition 1
    && condition 2
    && condition 3
    ...
) {
    code to be executed
} #/ short desc of if code, if needed.
else {
    else-block code
} #/ short desc of else code, if needed.

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In reply to Re^2: bloated 'if' formatting by radiantmatrix
in thread bloated 'if' formatting by eff_i_g

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