Fri, 6 Dec 2002 12:09:46 +0100, Ingo Wechsung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pisze:
> No. My editor produces the ASCII code for horizontal tab, when I
> hit the tab key. Just as it produces the ASCII code for a when I
> hit the a key.
>
> That's how it should be.
It shouln't, becase tabs are 8 spaces, which is too much for
indentation of programs in most languages.
> The real problem is, that nobody could tell from just looking at
> the screen, what a program means even if you know the layout rules
> very well.
Of course I can.
If you can't, perhaps you are using a non-standard tab width?
Please fix settings of your editor and it will work.
> Instead, your text editor displays some space in place of the tab.
> Only if the expansion rules of your editor are compatible with
> Haskell's may you grasp the source codes meaning.
But they are compatible because there is one most universally accepted
interpretation of a tab (move to the next multiple of 8 columns). Any
other interpretation hampers portability and should be avoided.
> Think of a software development team. One member (in India)
> uses "convert n leading spaces to tabs", the other (in Japan)
> "convert leading tabs to m spaces". Everytime one of them makes a
> small change in a file that has been changed by the other before,
> the source code control system will have a huge diff.
All these problems are caused by people who use a different tab size
than 8. With consistent tab size there is no reason to convert between
tabs and spaces.
--
__("< Marcin Kowalczyk
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