Cabal bug

Duncan Coutts duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk
Fri Aug 3 18:00:12 EDT 2007


On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 20:55 +0100, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> | the error message is now:
> |
> | setup: Cabal.cabal:70: Tabs used for indentation at (line,column):
> | [(70,0),(71,1)]
> 
> Great!  It would be helpful to add "Use spaces instead".  Otherwise
> the user might think "I know tabs are used for indentation -- I put
> them there".

Thomas has improved it to say:

+          "Do not use tabs for indentation (use spaces instead)\n"
+          ++ "  Tabs were used at (line,column): " ++ show tabs

Duncan



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