[rfc-i] sourcecode indentation

jhildebr at cisco.com (Joe Hildebrand (jhildebr)) Mon, 15 February 2016 18:46 UTC

From: jhildebr at cisco.com (Joe Hildebrand (jhildebr))
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 18:46:03 +0000
Subject: [rfc-i] sourcecode indentation
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On 2/13/16, 3:00 PM, "rfc-interest on behalf of Paul Kyzivat" <rfc-interest-bounces at rfc-editor.org on behalf of pkyzivat at alum.mit.edu> wrote:



>Agreed that is dangerous. But negative indent could be OK if it just 
>generates an error if there isn't sufficient whitespace to do the 
>outdent completely.

This error would have to happen in the preptool.

>But what does negative indent do if there are tabs at the beginning of 
>the text?

Error immediately?  Note: the more complicated this gets, the less interested I am in adding it to the doc.

-- 
Joe Hildebrand