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- From: zjlc12@hou.amoco.com (Jerry Campbell)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx
- Subject: Re: Blanks, REXX, and portability...
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.181552.7717@hou.amoco.com>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 18:15:52 GMT
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- An observation and a what if. Observation, since there is so much controversy
- regarding this issue I'd think that would be a clear sign that it should be left
- alone. The programmer should worry about this white space vs. "real" blanks
- thing. What if, I really, really did want to discriminately parse blanks as
- opposed to tabs? Take a Rexx program that wanted to convert tabs to real blanks
- or vice versa? In this case you would REQUIRE control over the precise value
- of the data when parsing. Please, don't build "intelligent" second guessing
- Rexx interpreters.....! Or standards.
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