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Hi,

On 3 Aug 2010, at 18:58, Jamie Gritton wrote:

> I always understood that is was a style error *not* to have at least
> some whitespace before a label, that only top-level objects should be
> pushed all the way to the left column. Style(9) appears to be silent =
on
> this issue.

Labels are special in that their scope is the enclosing function (not =
the enclosing block). Hanging them to the left emphasises this.

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Bob Bishop
rb@gid.co.uk