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From: "Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk" <qrczak@knm.org.pl>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: [Caml-announce] OCamldoc
Date: 13 Oct 2001 09:19:23 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrn9sg1or.7rp.qrczak@qrnik.zagroda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9q7886$2p8$1@qrnik.zagroda>

Fri, 12 Oct 2001 11:10:25 +0200, Sven <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> pisze:

> Suppose you have an editor which uses tab as 4 spaces, and you have :
> 
>     (** xxx **) (4 space used)
>     val f : t (a 4 space tab being used).
> 
> Then the documentation tool, which see tabs as 8 space, or maybe 2,
> or whatever will be confused, and the user will never understand it.

The mistake is in using something other than 8 as tab size.

I don't understand complaints that tabs are so bad because different
tab sizes when mixing tabs with spaces cause confusion. The solution
is simple: use 8 only as the size.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-10-13 11:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-09 12:30 Dave Berry
2001-10-10 11:08 ` Benjamin C. Pierce
2001-10-10 13:33   ` Sven
2001-10-10 14:10     ` Jacques Garrigue
2001-10-12  6:23       ` Francois Pottier
2001-10-12  6:50         ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2001-10-10 15:12     ` Benjamin C. Pierce
2001-10-10 15:25       ` Stefano Lanzavecchia
2001-10-10 15:39         ` Benjamin C. Pierce
2001-10-10 15:44           ` Stefano Lanzavecchia
2001-10-10 18:45           ` Maxence Guesdon
2001-10-10 19:38             ` Benjamin C. Pierce
2001-10-11  7:23               ` Florian Hars
2001-10-12  6:28             ` Francois Pottier
2001-10-12  9:10             ` Sven
2001-10-12  9:39               ` Markus Mottl
     [not found]             ` <9q7886$2p8$1@qrnik.zagroda>
2001-10-13  9:19               ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk [this message]
2001-10-10 15:36       ` Thorsten Ohl
2001-10-10 17:10       ` Patrick M Doane
2001-10-10 19:39         ` Benjamin C. Pierce
2001-10-10 15:25     ` Benjamin C. Pierce
2001-10-10 17:07   ` Patrick M Doane
2001-10-10 17:25     ` Sven
2001-10-10 17:44       ` [Caml-list] Re: Emacs comment support (was OCamldoc) Patrick M Doane
     [not found]       ` <Pine.BSF.3.96.1011010133900.56825G-100000@fledge.watson.or g>
2001-10-10 19:25         ` Chris Hecker
2001-10-11 19:32   ` [Caml-list] Re: [Caml-announce] OCamldoc Xavier Leroy
2001-10-12  8:29     ` Andreas Rossberg
2001-10-12  8:57     ` Didier Remy
2001-10-12  9:27       ` Fabrice Le Fessant
2001-10-12 10:36       ` Benjamin C. Pierce
2001-10-12 13:13         ` Francois Pottier
2001-10-12 17:23           ` Alan Schmitt
2001-10-13 11:49           ` Benjamin C. Pierce
2001-10-13 13:46             ` Jimmie Houchin
2001-10-14 12:50             ` Frank Atanassow
     [not found]   ` <9q4tft$88t$1@qrnik.zagroda>
2001-10-11 20:13     ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
     [not found] <9q1pg2$85h$1@qrnik.zagroda>
2001-10-10 15:35 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-09 11:40 Dave Berry
2001-10-09 12:14 ` Benjamin C. Pierce
2001-10-09  9:42 Dave Berry
2001-10-09 17:26 ` Maxence Guesdon
2001-10-10 13:29   ` Sven
2001-10-14  2:05     ` Mike Leary
2001-10-08 21:21 Maxence Guesdon
2001-10-09  6:26 ` [Caml-list] " Francois Pottier
2001-10-09 10:20   ` Jerome Vouillon
2001-10-09 11:41     ` Eric C. Cooper
2001-10-09 17:30     ` Maxence Guesdon
2001-10-09 14:26       ` Patrick M Doane
2001-10-09 21:12       ` rbw3
2001-10-10  9:19         ` Francois Pottier
2001-10-10 12:35           ` rbw3
2001-10-10 13:26     ` Sven
2001-10-09 14:46   ` Maxence Guesdon
2001-10-09  8:53     ` Fabrice Le Fessant

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