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From: "Federico G. Benavento" <benavento@gmail.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] A new language for Plan 9
Date: Thu,  1 May 2008 23:12:13 -0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3a0a0900c3aba8ba1d3ad35f077a54a7@yourdomain.dom> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7359f0490805011852k64a52a01k1efc1e6aba8b030c@mail.gmail.com>

> Put it this way: It's unwise to make program structure depend on
> invisible characters.

a white space is something hard to find, some time ago I helped a friend
who couldn't get a mkfile working, he got something like:
"mk: mkfile:6: syntax error; expected one of :<="
all due to a ' ' in what was supposed to be an empty line.

Federico G. Benavento

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-02  1:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-02  1:23 Pietro Gagliardi
2008-05-02  1:26 ` erik quanstrom
2008-05-02  2:21   ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-05-02  2:34     ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-05-07  9:24   ` Matt Erickson
2008-05-08  2:22     ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-05-11 23:04       ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-05-02  1:52 ` Rob Pike
2008-05-02  1:12   ` Federico G. Benavento [this message]
2008-05-02  2:22     ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-05-02  1:53   ` Rob Pike
2008-05-02  2:19   ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-05-02  3:22     ` Robert William Fuller
2008-05-02 12:34       ` Chad Dougherty
2008-05-02 14:43         ` Robert William Fuller
2008-05-03 14:07         ` David Arnold
2008-05-03 15:47           ` lucio
2008-05-03 23:28           ` Skip Tavakkolian
2008-05-03 23:32             ` Bruce Ellis
2008-05-03 23:50               ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-05-04  2:43               ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2008-05-04  5:16                 ` Steve Simon
2008-05-04  5:42                 ` Bruce Ellis
2008-05-04  7:42                   ` John Stalker
2008-05-04  7:48                     ` Steve Simon
2008-05-04  7:57                     ` lucio
2008-05-04 12:18                       ` Bruce Ellis
2008-05-04 13:48                         ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-05-04 15:03                           ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2008-05-05  1:45                             ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-05-05  2:24                               ` andrey mirtchovski
2008-05-05  3:58                                 ` erik quanstrom
2008-05-05 10:16                                 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-05-05  4:32                               ` Bruce Ellis
2008-05-02  4:25     ` ron minnich
2008-05-02  4:41       ` John Barham
2008-05-02  4:54         ` ron minnich
2008-05-02  5:01           ` John Barham
2008-05-02  4:39   ` John Barham
2008-05-02  5:07   ` andrey mirtchovski
2008-05-02 12:12     ` erik quanstrom
2008-05-02  5:07 ` John Barham
2008-05-02 12:07   ` erik quanstrom
2008-05-02  7:49 ` John Stalker
2008-05-02  8:42   ` Bakul Shah
2008-05-02  9:24     ` Martin Neubauer

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