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- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 13:50:26 -0400
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- From: cultural elite <dsr@LNS598.TN.CORNELL.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Blanks, REXX, and portability...
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- Dave Gomberg <GOMBERG@UCSFVM.BITNET> writes:
- >On Tue, 8 Sep 1992 12:32:48 -0400 cultural elite said:
- >>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
-
- Wild. What languages have you used that do normalization on assignment?
- It doesn't sound to me like a reasonable thing to do.
-
- But anyway, I'm not advocating that tabs and blanks be made generally
- synonymous--all I want is for them to both be accepted as word separators
- in parse, word(), words(), and a few other obvious places, which does not
- imply general synonymy. However, Eric may have come up with a serious
- objection with his argument that this implies '\t' = ' ' be true, which
- I'm not entirely happy about.
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