{-# 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.

-----Original Message----- From: Ronan Klyne [mailto:ronan@ninebynine.org] Sent: 26 January 2004 03:53 To: The Haskell Mailing List Subject: [Haskell] Re: Use of tab characters in indentation-sensitive code

I support the idea that somthing should be done. I would like to suggest that the compiler references an environment variable to determine how many spaces a tab represents. I realise that this would cause the same code to run on some systems and fail on others, but it would allow a developer to set up a comfortable working system without tab characters ruining the logic of a program.

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