Andreas wrote: > The most flexible but safe solution is to simply define the indentation > as the sequence of indentation characters used. Two consecutive lines > are indented consistently whenever one indentation is a prefix of the > other. Hence you may freely mix different indentation characters, but > you must be consistent across lines. Any decent editor should be able to > ensure that.
Well no they won't, because some editors might replace blocks of 8 spaces at the start of a line with TABs (or something like that), meaning that 8 and 7 spaces would go to "\t" and " ", which your algorithm would reject. On the other hand, so would mine, so perhaps your algorithm is better, being simpler
Simon Marlow wrote: > As for the width of the tab character: tab stops are every 8 columns. > Period. The Haskell report says so
Yes, true. I think it was Leslie Lamport who wrote in TeXHaX that anyone defining an input format which includes tabs should be sentenced to ten years programming COBOL in Nijny-Novgorod. Off you go, Simon ... :)
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