On Mon 28 Aug, 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.
>
This is a problem, there may not be a general solution (use tabs qw(4)?
for tabs != 8 ?)
> 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.
Editors and people are inconsistent. I can indent with spaces then
when the next lines is autoindented the editor uses tabs.
trying to ensure consistent behaviour is like trying to get consistent
behaviour on this list...
>
> 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).
>
This leads back to my original "remove all whitespace". Somehow there is a
compromise to extracted from this.
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