On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Stephen Blackheath [to
Haskell-Beginners]
Jorden,
Cave persons such as yourself can use tabs as long as your tab size is 8 characters. This is "hard-coded" into the Haskell 98 specification.
My editor, being made of sticks, some rocks, and the jawbone of an ass, just puts in a tab character. The graphical representation of a tab character expands from the insertion point to the nearest multiple of 8 characters, but that has no bearing on the file contents. Also, there are situations when a tab-boundary is not enough. What is the correct course of action here? Currently, I usually try to change the line to spaces, or if I'm lazy, I'll put spaces after tabs, which I don't feel good about. My editor knows enough to indent the next line the same amount.
Steve
Jorden Mauro wrote:
First of all, *don't mix tabs and spaces for indentation* (best, don't use tabs at all).
I find the latter a bit too restrictive, especially since I use a text editor that is a glorified version of ed. Hitting the spacebar 19 times is too much to ask of me.
And as such, I am occasionally forced to do something when a tab doesn't get me past the word `where' or `let', but isn't that the majority of what Layout specifies?
Is there a good answer for caveman programmers who like ed and tabs?