[Haskell] Gallopping Tab characters

[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 different indentation characters, but
> > > you must be consistent across lines. Any decent editor should be 
> > able to
> > > ensure that.
> >
> > Well no they won't, because some editors might replace blocks of 8 spaces
> > at the start of a line with TABs (or something like that), meaning that
> > 8 and 7 spaces would go to "\t" and "       ", which your algorithm would
> > reject.
> 
> If the editor does the replacement consistently everywhere (like I would 
> expect) then it would not change the meaning of a "well-indented" program.

Yeah, but it probably won't. More likely, it will only perform the
replacement on the lines which you actually edit, and leave the rest
of them alone.

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Glynn Clements <glynn.clements at virgin.net>