Re: The problem isn't us, it's you.

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From: Andrew Black
Subject: Re: The problem isn't us, it's you.
Date: 12:44 on 25 Feb 2007

 > So, while on the subject of meaningless spaces,

I get really annoyed by significant whitespace (ie TAB v space or end of 
line) is significant.
I one had input to a program
         some input
Worked
	some input
Syntax error

Fortunately I was in control of the program (didnt write it) so could 
change it to accept a tab as well as space.

And I spend ages trying to figure out what was wrong with
     some bash command with lots of input  and  \
      continuing to next line
I realise what was happening - bash was seeing \<space> and not \<lf>. 
and I am not suggesting bash should behave differently. But it was still 
annoying.

There's stuff above here

Peter da Silva 22:37 on 24 Feb 2007
- Andrew Black 12:44 on 25 Feb 2007
- Yossi Kreinin 13:13 on 25 Feb 2007
  - Peter da Silva 14:08 on 25 Feb 2007
- dom (Dominic Mitchell) 19:36 on 25 Feb 2007
  - Peter da Silva 01:29 on 26 Feb 2007

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