Sujet : Re: The joy of FORTRAN
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.miscDate : 30. Sep 2024, 22:45:46
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On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:26:54 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Because his theory that all spaces could be replaced with tabs, was not
applicable to padded string literals inside the code itself
The algorithm was wrong. The correct way that “tabify” and “untabify” work
in Emacs, for example, is to only process the leading whitespace on the
line.