Folks,
Back to the H98 grindstone:
> > Then I think hugs and nhc98 are wrong. The report states that the
> > unliterate version of the file is recovered by "taking only
> those lines
> > beginning with '>', and removing the first character of
> those lines",
> > which would leave the lines indented by a single space, not two.
>
> This would appear to be an un-remarked change to the Report since
> version 1.2. That version states that "program lines have the leading
> '>' replaced by a leading space, to preserve tab alignments". Version
> 1.3 removed this specification, and the changed specification only
> appeared in Haskell'98.
This does indeed seem peculiar. I propose to revert to the
Haskell 1.2 story, in which
'>' is replaced by ' ' (not simply deleted)
Not a big issue. Any objections?
Simon
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