Outlaw tabs

[Lennart Augustsson]

But VT is allowed in Haskell.

On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Jon Fairbairn
<jon.fairbairn at cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> Don Stewart <dons at galois.com> writes:
>
>> barsoap:
>>> I guess everyone knows why.
>>
>> Use -Wwarn-tabs
>
> Warnings are the wrong answer to this problem.  In fact,
> they're rarely the right answer to any problem. Tabs in
> sourcecode can have bad effects, and Haskell is a language
> that attempts to reject bad effects as far as possible. Nor
> can I see any argument in favour of allowing tabs (if HT is
> allowed, why not VT?).
>
> --
> Jón Fairbairn                                 Jon.Fairbairn at cl.cam.ac.uk
>
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