Andreas Rossberg 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. > > If the editor does the replacement consistently everywhere (like I would > expect) then it would not change the meaning of a "well-indented" program.
Yeah, but it probably won't. More likely, it will only perform the replacement on the lines which you actually edit, and leave the rest of them alone. -- Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
