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Re: underline-line


From: tomas
Subject: Re: underline-line
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2009 06:59:19 +0100
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On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 04:32:30PM +0100, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:

[...]

> The only place where prefix tabs are allowed, for historical reasons
> is in Makefile.  
> 
> And since alot of people are switching to things such as ant,

Ouch. Not that 'm very fond of Makefile's tab, but I'll take leading tabs
before XML any day :-(

>                                                                 perhaps
> we could have a big switch over to spaces.  It would be enough that
> the few make providers agree on a date [...]

No need for that. Make providers agreeing on accepting leading
whitespace instead of just tabs would be backwards compatible and it'll
slowly do away with tabs. But I don't believe it to be important enough.

Regards
- -- tomás
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