Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> i.e., is whitespace just a delimiter, or does it have additional
> meaning?

The former. It's a delimiter, and the amount of it present above one
is immaterial.

> What would you call a language that did not need an intervening
> space to indicate such a boundary?

Annoying, or maybe deliberately obtuse.

Mind you, C and its brethren don't require a /space/, per se, but some
non-identifier character, but I'm not sure the distinction is relevant
to your question. I have to turn the question around: What would such
a language use to indicate the boundaries of a user-created
identifier?

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Steven E. Harris


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