On 12/28/2005 01:01 PM, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
Perhaps it would be more clear to say "whitespace" instead. Or are
there types of whitespace other than 'spaces, tabs and newlines',
which do not get ignored?
I think the locale comes into play here too, so saying anything
specific would be wrong.
That may be, and if so the suggestion is withdrawn.
And what is the difference between `blank' and `whitespace'? I don't
see it...
The former could be interpreted as "a single blank", which could then
map very easily onto "a single space" (since no other form of whitespace
produces a single column's worth of change), but there is no such thing
as "a single whitespace" in intuitive interpretation; "whitespace" is a
collective noun.
(May I also say, you have one of the stranger forms of quoting I've ever
encountered.)
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