RE: [Haskell] Re: Use of tab characters in indentation-sensitive code

Bayley, Alistair wrote:

{-# OPTIONS -tabsize 4 #-}

I think it's still a bit of a hack, but at least the author tells you what their tabsize was when they wrote it, so you can recover their layout. You could always pre-process the source yourself with sed, if the compiler doesn't understand the option.

Using "pr -T -e4" is less work than writing a sed script (you can't just replace each tab with 4 spaces; you need to use between 1 and 4 spaces depending upon the column in which the tab character occurs). -- Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@virgin.net>