> 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.
If the editor does the replacement consistently everywhere (like I would expect) then it would not change the meaning of a "well-indented" program.
- Andreas
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