Re: We know what you need, and we'll push it down your throat.

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From: Juerd
Subject: Re: We know what you need, and we'll push it down your throat.
Date: 16:35 on 22 Dec 2006
Smylers skribis 2006-12-22 15:30 (+0000):
> > And don't forget perl6.
> There's a difference.  Yossi was passing diff the -b flag, which ignores
> changes in amounts of whitespace (but still sees as significant the
> difference between having some whitespace and having none at all).
> 
> The aspect of Perl 6 which you hate is that inserting some whitespace
> where there wasn't any changes its meaning -- and -b will still show
> that!

Indeed, wherever whitespace is allowed, you may use as much as you like.

That is, if it's horizontal whitespace...
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