begin quoting Steven E. Harris as of Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 09:27:38AM -0700: > 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.
Er, ... I was unclear. I was restating what I saw as your point. :) > > What would you call a language that did not need an intervening > > space to indicate such a boundary? > > Annoying, or maybe deliberately obtuse. Or it would seem like a good idea at the time. > 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? Shortest match (that doesn't result in a syntax error)? Longest match? Closest match in scope? If you put a whitespace-is-completely-optional constraint on a language designer, no doubt they can come up with *something*. -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
