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- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 10:21:06 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 Tue,
- 8 Sep 1992 12:32:48 -0400 from <dsr@LNS598.TN.CORNELL.EDU>
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- On Tue, 8 Sep 1992 12:32:48 -0400 cultural elite said:
- >Dave Gomberg <GOMBERG@UCSFVM.BITNET> writes:
- >>I want that in MY os. But there is no accounting for taste! I would
- >>really like Anders (I assume the first letter is in fact capitalized)
- >>and other Unix types to say if they can stand it that:
- >>
- >> c=a||b; say pos(a,c)
- >>
- >>would say 0? It is not what I mean by REXX. Sorry this rambles so. Dave
- >
- >Ok, call me blind, I but I can't see this hole I seem to be in. You'll
- >have to explain how you get c=a||b; pos(a,c)=0 out of any sensible
- >proposal.
-
- If the synonymy of tabs to a particular number of blanks were accepted, and
- if assignment did normalization (as it often does, both in standards and in
- practice) then c might well have a tab when a ended and b began with strings
- of blanks. Dave
-