From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id NAA05171; Sat, 13 Oct 2001 13:49:09 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA04453; Sat, 13 Oct 2001 13:49:08 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from saul.cis.upenn.edu (SAUL.CIS.UPENN.EDU [158.130.12.4]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f9DBn7D02711; Sat, 13 Oct 2001 13:49:07 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by saul.cis.upenn.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) with SMTP id f9DBn6x19085; Sat, 13 Oct 2001 07:49:06 -0400 (EDT) To: Francois.Pottier@inria.fr cc: caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Reply-to: bcpierce@cis.upenn.edu Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: [Caml-announce] OCamldoc In-reply-to: Your message of Fri, 12 Oct 2001 15:13:19 +0200. <20011012151319.A16917@pauillac.inria.fr> Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 07:49:06 EDT Message-ID: <19083.1002973746@saul.cis.upenn.edu> From: "Benjamin C. Pierce" Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk > > The worst thing wrong with this convention in Make is that \t and eight > > spaces look the same but mean different. Nothing like that is being > > proposed here. > > I'm afraid it is. The notion of two things being at the `same indentation > level' is dependent on the number of spaces which \t expands into, isn't > it? I see this as a minor problem. After all, the only indentation levels that are likely to matter for this application are zero and nonzero! Still, I'm not all that opposed to Jerome's suggestion -- it's a little heavier than the minimum, in my view, but not much. (I'm glad we've had so much discussion about it, though, because now people will think twice before proposing *more* funny characters to go in comments... :-) Benjamin ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr