[MLton] Re: MLton library project

Vesa Karvonen vesa.karvonen at cs.helsinki.fi
Sun Dec 17 13:25:20 PST 2006


Quoting Matthew Fluet <fluet at tti-c.org>:
> >> ... I understand there's a coding convention for the mlton compiler.
> >> However, these are my personal libraries, and I have my own convention.
> >> Must I really remove tabs?
> > 
> > I don't feel super-strongly about this.  It has been a useful
> > convention, and it doesn't seem difficult to follow.  But if causes
> > people to be reluctant to commit ...  What do others think?
> 
> I like keeping the convention for the compiler sources, but I don't 
> really care one way or the other for personal libs.

It is no secret that I prefer using spaces only, because it always
works as intended (regardless of OS, program, or (e.g diff) format),
but I see no compelling reason to force the convention upon people's
personal libraries.

-Vesa Karvonen



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