On 31/05/2006 8:17 PM, Sion Arrowsmith wrote:
> John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Whitespace is a silly term, anyway (IMHO); is there such a
>> thing as a space that is not white?
>
> Yes, if you go back to the term's origins in printshops. A solid
> block of ink is space, not print, but
Sion Arrowsmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> And if we didn't say "whitespace", how would we distinguish between
> "space characters" meaning " " and "whitespace characters"
> meaning " \t\r\n\v"? (OK, has anyone met a "\v" in the wild?)
Not me. But I routinely use a whitespace character you
John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Whitespace is a silly term, anyway (IMHO); is there such a
>thing as a space that is not white?
Yes, if you go back to the term's origins in printshops. A solid
block of ink is space, not print, but it's not whitespace. We've
kept the word alive, even if
