Re: Outlaw tabs

Achim Schneider writes:

Twan van Laarhoven wrote:

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Tabs can be convenient for quick scripts and things like that, where you wouldn't use -Wall. And while I keep hearing about the problems with tabs, I have never encountered any with Haskell code.

If you want a key to quickly indent your code, use that funky key with those two arrows, but don't let it produce a tab character while you're editing text. Preferably, let it analyse the syntax of the previous line and automagically Indent By The Right Amount.

Exactly. There's no reason that convenience of input should be part of the language syntax. It's a job for another component. -- Jón Fairbairn Jon.Fairbairn@cl.cam.ac.uk