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From: Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Date: Thu,  1 May 2008 22:22:46 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] A new language for Plan 9
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On May 1, 2008, at 9:12 PM, Federico G. Benavento wrote:

>> 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
>
Another thing: lines with only whitespace are naturally ignored (as
far as I know - I am human) and don't break the block structure.

The space in an empty line should be a bug, right?