Sat, 24 Aug 2002 11:21:40 -0700, Ashley Yakeley pisze:

I disagree, a tab is not an encoding for a run of spaces. It's an entirely separate kind of whitespace. I use tabs to indent my code,

Tabs are poorly suited for indenting because a tab has width 8 and this is at least twice too much for an indent unit for a functional language (i.e. lots of nested expressions). OCaml usually uses the indent of 2 (it has a bit more indents than Haskell because case alternatives etc. are delimited by |, usually put at the left). Tabs must have a consistent width, because otherwise mixing tabs with spaces (which will always happen from time to time when several people are editing the same code) has fatal consequences. -- __("< Marcin Kowalczyk \__/ qrczak@knm.org.pl ^^ http://qrnik.knm.org.pl/~qrczak/