[Haskell-cafe] Indentation woes

david48 dav.vire+haskell at gmail.com
Wed Aug 1 11:04:02 EDT 2007


On 8/1/07, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH <allbery at ece.cmu.edu> wrote:
>
> On Aug 1, 2007, at 10:05 , david48 wrote:
>
> > On the topic of indenting, it would be nice if there was a way to tell
> > the compiler the size of the tab characters.
> >
> > The way it is now, I have to use space characters to indent.
>
> The problem with that is, while there's a standard for the width of a
> tab on Unix, there isn't on Windows.  It's really only safe to use
> spaces for indentation.

On second thought, I don't even know why I posted this. There's so
many things far more important that tabs, and using spaces is truly
the only safe way.

Sorry for the noise.


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