>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?
and if you print it you, even in fixed font, the only way to make sure things line up across pages is with a ruler. double sided pages are more problematic. t _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
