On 12/5/07, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Bill Page wrote: > > | the screen it is 2-dimensional. Unless I have a severe problem > | with my vision (tunnel vision) I see this all at once as simple > | two dimensional geometrical arrangement (a "curve" in 2-d > | space): > | > | x > | x > | x > | x > | x > | x > > when I read your mail from a device that displays your > message one line at a time, is it still 2-dimensional?
No. I do not think the message would be comprehensible when it was read one line at a time any more than it would be when read one column at a time. Neither of these are "2-dimensional" unless one of the dimensions you admit is time. > If yes, why isn't that true for C program source file? Removing the distinction between new lines \n (vertical whitespace) and spaces (horizontal whitespace) has no effect on the parsing of a C program source file. Regards, Bill Page. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ open-axiom-devel mailing list open-axiom-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-axiom-devel
