On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Max Bolingbroke <batterseapo...@hotmail.com> wrote: > If we outlawed them now we'd have to take an annoying one-time hit > removing all the (tons) of existing tabs, generating lots of merge > conflicts on all GHC branches for little immediate gain :-( > > So while I share your sentiment, I don't think eliminating tabs would > be worth it in cost/benefit terms.
Perhaps we could just avoid adding new ones? I think you can make git check for new whitespace violations in a pre-commit hook. The problem I have with mixed spaces/tabs is when I cut-n-paste code (come on, we've all done that) you can have strange compilation errors due to copying code that was indented using tabs into code that was indented using spaces. Johan _______________________________________________ Cvs-ghc mailing list Cvs-ghc@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc
