APL\360 (Was: cctalk Digest, Vol 76, Issue 29

Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Sat Jan 30 17:05:46 CST 2021


On 1/30/21 1:38 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> Actually, that was Chuck who said that "there be monsters" when
> languages use whitespace rather than punctuation to denote boundaries.

And then there's "make", where a hard tab must be used for indentation,
unless it's a recipe, then spaces must be used for indentation.

One of those cases where one asks "Who wrote this (*&@#?"?

--Chuck




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