NondecreasingIndentation (& de-tabbing several .hs files)

[Mateusz Kowalczyk]

On 05/15/2014 12:12 PM, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:
> Hello GHC devs,
> 
> While I refactored the ghc code base to declare LANGUAGE pragmas
> locally, rather than via -X-flags on the GHC commandline, I've noticed
> there were a couple of places where NondecreasingIndentation grammar was used.
> 
> What's the current consensus on the use of NondecreasingIndentation? Is
> its use still encouraged?
> 
> ----
> 
> Moreover, I touched several files (over 300) while refactoring, would
> that qualify as "working on this module" in the sense of
> 
> | While working on this module you are encouraged to remove it and detab
> | the module (please do the detabbing in a separate patch).
> 
> or would that overreach wrt the original intent of the guideline quoted
> above?
> 
> Cheers,
>   hvr
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Is there a reason behind not just detabbing (and removing trailing
whitespace) the whole tree in a patch? If you're going to detab in a
separate patch anyway, might as well do all of it once and for all.

-- 
Mateusz K.