26 Jan
2004
26 Jan
'04
9:59 a.m.
Simon Marlow wrote:
As for the width of the tab character: tab stops are every 8 columns. Period. The Haskell report says so
Yes, true. I think it was Leslie Lamport who wrote in TeXHaX that anyone defining an input format which includes tabs should be sentenced to ten years programming COBOL in Nijny-Novgorod. Off you go, Simon ... :)
/me grabs COBOL book and bottle of Vodka sniff Simon