Re: Use of tab characters in indentation-sensitive code

Graham Klyne writes:

I think that compilers should issue a warning when indentation that determines the scope of a construct is found to contain tab characters.

I second that. In the same spirit, the compiler should issue a warning when <tab> is used in literal strings, rather than \t, because some editors _do_ mess up the formatting and thus change the program! IMHO, <tab> is a character you'd really want to avoid using in source code at all, but obviously, there are others who think otherwise. ;-) Peter