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- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 07:22:02 PDT
- Sender: REXX Programming discussion list <REXXLIST@UGA.BITNET>
- From: Dave Gomberg <GOMBERG@UCSFVM.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Blanks, REXX, and portability...
- In-Reply-To: Message of Thu,
- 27 Aug 1992 06:30:35 LCL from <anders@LISE3.LISE.UNIT.NO>
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- Unix REXX interpreters should do whatever they need to do to overcome the
- shortcomings of the underlying operating system, such as a confusion on
- the part of the original designers as to what a space was.
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- It is NOT true that this is an ASCII vs EBCDIC discussion, most PC-DOS and
- OS/2 applications don't see tab as whitespace, and almost all of the ones
- that do do so only optionally. And there are MANY more PCs that Unix
- machines.
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- Mutliple space characters (tab) are a typing and disk compression convenience.
- Partial space characters are a way to format printed output.
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- Neither belong in the description of the syntax of a programming language.
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