Re: The joy of FORTRAN

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

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.

Wrong.  They operate on every occurrence of <TAB> in the file, or replace
appropriate numbers of <SPC>s with an equivalently place <TAB>.

I use these nearly every fucking day.  You're flat out wrong.

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