From: ara howard <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2008-03-26T08:50:34+09:00
Subject: Re: golf: tabs to bullets


On Mar 25, 2008, at 5:22 PM, David A. Black wrote:

> I'm seeing it differently; I see Martin's like this:

oh yeah - interesting.  the fix:

cfp2:~ > cat a.rb
DATA.read.gsub(%r/(?:\t\ ?)+/){|s|'  '*(n=s.count("\t")-1)+%w(* - o x) 
[n]+' '}.display

__END__
foo
         bar
                  baz
                          hello
                  world


cfp2:~ > ruby a.rb
foo
* bar
   - baz
     o hello
   - world


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