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hashicorp / hcl2

Former temporary home for experimental new version of HCL
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Clarify whether tabs are accepted or not #123

Closed jen20 closed 4 years ago

jen20 commented 4 years ago

The specification (here) reads: https://github.com/hashicorp/hcl2/blob/master/hcl/hclsyntax/spec.md#comments-and-whitespace

However, this is contradicted both by this closed issue: https://github.com/hashicorp/hcl2/issues/2, and the implementation in Terraform 0.12 which accepts tabs without issue.

Which part is correct here?

apparentlymart commented 4 years ago

This indeed changed quite late on to allow tabs, in return for a more complicated idea of how we count columns for source location references. The specification is lagging behind the implementation.

jen20 commented 4 years ago

Thanks for the clarification.