On 23 Feb 2004, at 1:50 PM, Daniel Macks wrote:
[snip - discussion comparing RFC-822 and hereis doc styles]
RFC-822 says the first line of the field is on the line with the fieldname, and continues for all successive lines that are whitespace-indented. The RFC specifies "whitespace", not any particular amount nor even that the whitespace used must be consistent line-to-line. Since fink has to disregard all leading whitespace in this format, a language like python (as Rohan seems itching to use:) that uses indentation to indicate code blocks could not be used.
A quick clarification on that...
I have no immediate plans for python scripting in a package. The lack of support for whitespace significant scripting languages (ie python) is just something I noticed while looking at changes to support folding of multiline commands.
-- Rohan Lloyd
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