Re: [Haskell-beginners] indentation

On 14/02/10 22:05, Jorden Mauro wrote:

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Stephen Blackheath [to Haskell-Beginners] wrote:

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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.

Sure it does, the bearing is that there's a tab character there. ;-)

Also, there are situations when a tab-boundary is not enough. What is the correct course of action here?

Other people have already suggested it: change editor. Please let us know if there is *any* good reason for anyone to be using such a limited editor in the 21st century.

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.

From this it sounds like you aren't using such a stone age editor after all. Are you sure you can't get it to also convert tabs to spaces? /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe