>I suppose you are arguing that the parens notation contains
>some redundant information because it contains matched "begin"
>symbols and "end" symbols while in the "pile" notation the
>beginning of an indented block is marked by the first initial
>white space greater than the line that precedes it, while
>any line with less initial white space ends all proceeding
>blocks with greater white space. So therefore the serialized
>linear notation is perhaps inherently less fragile?

open your program text in a proportional font editor.
parens work. piling doesn't.

t


_______________________________________________
Axiom-developer mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer

Reply via email to