Re: odds and ends

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Tuesday 18 July 2006 01:35 pm, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> Hans-Bernhard Br=F6ker wrote:
> > Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> >>>No, leading and trailing whitespace inside strings should *not* be
> >>>ignored. If the code currently does that, that's a bug.
> >>
> >>You mean "currently doesn't do that", I think.  (I originally
> >> framed the issue as double negative, but so no other way.)
> >
> > No.  I meant exactly what I wrote.  If blanks *anywhere* inside the
> > delimeters of a string passed to gnuplot get ignored, that's a bug,
> > period.
>
> Right.  That is currently how linux works.
> If blanks are to matter, I contend that invisible blanks should not
> be strip even in the case of
>
> load 'foo.dem
>
> Because then one could argue that the following
>
> load 'foo  dem
>
> should be interpretted as
>
> load 'foo' dem

I argue that it should be considered a syntax error, and
not interpreted at all.

I have never like the "closing quote optional" behavior.


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Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle WA