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- From: anders@lise3.lise.unit.no (Anders Christensen)
- Subject: Re: Blanks, REXX, and portability...
- In-Reply-To: Dave Gomberg's message of Thu, 27 Aug 1992 13:11:46 PDT
- Message-ID: <ANDERS.92Aug28021358@lise3.lise.unit.no>
- Sender: news@ugle.unit.no (NetNews Administrator)
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- References: <REXXLIST%92082716163624@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 02:13:58
- Lines: 35
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- In article <REXXLIST%92082716163624@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> Dave Gomberg <GOMBERG@UCSFVM.BITNET> writes:
-
- > Maybe the following comprimise on standards handling of white space is
- > acceptable:
- >
- > 1. The standard thruout uses the word blank.
- >
- > 2. This text is added: "Some operating systems routinely use more than
- > one character as meaning the same [...]
-
- That is the "status quo" solution, It really does not say anything
- more than 2nd ed of TRL, except from the note that the concept of
- 'blank' is likely to differ between operating systems.
-
- If no other solution is acceptable, then that is the best solution,
- since it leaves the TRL as is (most people acknowledges TRL as the
- basis of the standard). The same solution should be chosen in other
- situations where agreement is impossible to achieve. Many may not
- think that is is the _perfect_ solution, since it is not very
- specific, but I assume that it at least is the solution acceptable to
- most parties.
-
- With this flame-war on REXXLIST/comp.lang.rexx, one thing has at least
- been achieved: the probability that the problem is going to be
- discussed at the coming ANSI REXX meeting has increased ... :-)
-
- > If there is no consensus among users as to which characters are
- > equivalent to blanks, then only the blank character should be so
- > implemented."
-
- I am not really sure how to interpret this. As long as "users",
- "consensus" and "be implemented" (implemented where? and by whom?) is
- rather unspecified, I think that sentence should be left out.
-
- -anders
-