begin quoting Steven E. Harris as of Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 08:31:37AM -0700: [snip] > Allowing space to be used to terminate an identifier does not make a > language "whitespace-sensitive". I interpret that kind of sensitivity > to mean that the program's (or sentence's) meaning changes depending > on how much space /above the minimum/ is used. That is, if "int i" and
i.e., is whitespace just a delimiter, or does it have additional meaning? > "int i" were different because the latter contains one more > intervening space, I'd call that being whitespace-sensitive. But > differentiating between "inti" and "int i" is not sensitive as such, > as that intervening space is the minimum punctuation required to > indicate a boundary between two identifiers. What would you call a language that did not need an intervening space to indicate such a boundary? -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
