Bart Lateur wrote:
> 
> On 27 Aug 2000 19:23:51 -0000, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
> 
> >It only removes whitespace,
> >and it measures whitespace with tabs=8.
> 
> My editor is set to tabs=4. Perl's interpretation wouldn't agree with
> the visual appearance in my editor. This doesn't sound like a neat
> solution.
> 
> Why not disallow merging of tabs and spaces as being equivalent? If you
> want to skip a leading tab, but a tab between '<<"' and the EOL marker.
> If you want to skip spaces, put spaces in. If you want to skip tabs and
> spaces, put that sequence in.
> 
> The only consequence would be that you'd have to be consistent in what
> you put in front of the text lines (and in the whitespace prefix
> definition).
> 
> --
>         Bart.

Why not make the details of this controlled by a pragma?

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