Re: [Haskell-i18n] Unicode in source

On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 05:51:42PM +0000, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:

Fri, 23 Aug 2002 10:56:43 -0400, Dylan Thurston pisze:

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(I'd go further and require that the leading white-space always be identical, not just get you to the same column. Tabs are not always equal to 8 spaces...)

Choosing a non-standard tab width is evil. They should be 8 spaces always and life would be a bit simpler.

I prefer to think of spaces and tabs as independent units. That way there are never any errors of comparison. If you use the equality 8 spaces = 1 tab, then your indentation gets destroyed in, for instance, quoted e-mail messages. WRT Haskell, this has annoyed me in literate scripts using '>'. (I think there was even some difference between Haskell implementations here?) --Dylan