Re: whitespace

2003-04-01 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 02:54 PM 4/1/03 -0600, The Fool wrote: http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespace/ Most modern programming languages do not consider white space characters (spaces, tabs and newlines) syntax, ignoring them, as if they weren't there. We consider this to be a gross injustice to these perfectly friendly

RE: whitespace

2003-04-01 Thread Nick Arnett
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > The Fool > Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 12:55 PM > To: Brin-L > Subject: whitespace > > > http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespace/ > > Most modern programming languages do not consider white space characters

Re: whitespace

2003-04-01 Thread J. van Baardwijk
At 14:54 01-04-03 -0600, The Fool wrote: http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespace/ Most modern programming languages do not consider white space characters (spaces, tabs and newlines) syntax, ignoring them, as if they weren't there. We consider this to be a gross injustice to these perfectly friend

Re: whitespace

2003-04-02 Thread ks
> Most modern programming languages do not consider white space characters > (spaces, tabs and newlines) syntax, ignoring them, as if they weren't > there. We consider this to be a gross injustice to these perfectly > friendly members of the character set. Should they be ignored, just > because th