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- From: martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx
- Subject: Re: Blanks, REXX, and portability...
- Message-ID: <MARTINC.92Sep9095749@grover.cs.unc.edu>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 13:57:49 GMT
- References: <REXXLIST%92090813231362@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
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- Organization: UNC Department of Computer Science
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- In-reply-to: GOMBERG@UCSFVM.BITNET's message of 8 Sep 92 17:21:06 GMT
-
- In article <REXXLIST%92090813231362@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> GOMBERG@UCSFVM.BITNET (Dave Gomberg) writes:
-
- 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
-
- I think part of the point is that there can't be a standard equation of
- TAB to some number of blanks; that's what crosses up the hoped-for
- identities. But that question seems orthogonal to whether blanks and
- tabs ought both be whitespace.
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