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- Path: sparky!uunet!mercury.hsi.com!mlfarm!cs.arizona.edu!icon-group
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 00:10:44 MST
- From: whm@shepard.sunquest.com (Bill Mitchell)
- Message-ID: <9301230710.AA27565@shepard.sunquest.com>
- Subject: Re: entab/detab
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- I suspect that usage of entab/detab (mostly the latter) is related to one's
- dialects of implementation techniques and input designs. Personally, in ten
- years of Icon programming, I've never had a strong urge for either entabbing
- or detabbing and if I've ever used entab/detab, I can't remember it.
-
- detab users: Why do you typically use it? To make intra-line whitespace
- always be blanks? To make sure that what would print in column N on the
- screen is the Nth character in a string? What else?
-
- My opinion is that entab/detab should have been left as IPL procedures.
- I don't think that the idiom they provide is used frequently enough to
- justify inclusion in the language.
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