[Glynn Clements
Peter wrote:
Currently, I expand tabs to 4 spaces only, so
\tx=bar
looks like
____foo = bar
to me when the compiler sees
________foo = bar
If you want to go the layout way perhaps someone/you could put in a compiler option for tab expansion. Check in ghc/compiler/parser/Lex.lhs - it should be a starting point. Perhaps I will do it if I get a chance.
That seems like a really bad idea to me. If someone writes code which relies upon this particular option, but it isn't given, there's a good chance that the code will be compiled incorrectly but without any warning.
please see my previous suggestion: i believe the compiler should refuse to do "tab expansion" at all... m -- matt hellige matt@immute.net http://matt.immute.net