Re: [Haskell] Gallopping Tab characters

2004-01-26 Thread Glynn Clements
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 diffe

Re: [Haskell] Gallopping Tab characters

2004-01-26 Thread Matthew Walton
George Russell wrote: Simon Marlow wrote: > As for the width of the tab character: tab stops are every 8 columns. > Period. The Haskell report says so Yes, true. I think it was Leslie Lamport who wrote in TeXHaX that anyone defining an input format which includes tabs should be sentenced to ten

Re: [Haskell] Gallopping Tab characters

2004-01-26 Thread Andreas Rossberg
George Russell 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 ch

[Haskell] Gallopping Tab characters

2004-01-26 Thread George Russell
Andreas 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