Text.PrettyPrint mixes tabs and spaces??
Simon Marlow
simonmar at microsoft.com
Tue Apr 13 12:33:47 EDT 2004
> >From Text.PrettyPrint.HughesPJ:
>
> indent n | n >= 8 = '\t' : indent (n - 8)
> | otherwise = spaces n
>
> I consider it seriously evil to mix tabs and spaces for indentation.
> *Seriously* evil. Kill-on-sight evil.
>
> Not to mention that LaTeX's \verbatiminput does not handle tabs, which
> makes the result look like, well, crap.
>
> If there are people who want to mix tabs and spaces, fine,
> but at least give me a flag that turns it off. Please?
He's right; tabs aren't necessarily every 8 columns everywhere, so the generic pretty printing library shouldn't make this assumption. I'll remove it, unless there are any objections.
Cheers,
Simon
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