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- From: eric@sejnet.sunet.se (Eric Thomas)
- Subject: Re: Re: Blanks vs white space...
- Message-ID: <1992Aug29.183015.1@sejnet.sunet.se>
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- Organization: SUNET, Stockholm, Sweden
- References: <REXXLIST%92082911224924@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 18:30:15 GMT
-
- In article <REXXLIST%92082911224924@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>, Dave Gomberg <GOMBERG@UCSFVM.BITNET> writes:
- > Well, Eric, I have a little problem with your latest. Suppose I write:
- >
- > DO I=1^TO 10
- >
- > where ^ is one of the weird, emm/2*PI to the blank spaces. Is the
- > parser supposed to recognize that too?
-
- No idea, I haven't read the standard in question. I guess the one advantage of
- these 32-bit-alphabet standards is that national ambiguities are removed -
- there are so many codes that all needs can be addressed with one alphabet. So
- whatever emm/2PI means, it will be the same in all countries and for all
- operating systems, and I assume the standard would make it clear whether it is
- an ornamental blank with no syntactical meaning or an actual separator.
-
- Anyway if this new standard is as successful as the previous ones, all we will
- have to concern us with is tab, CR, LF, VT and FF :-)
-
- Eric
-