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From: worley@compass.uucp (Dale Worley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Tabs in patches distributed through the perl-users mailing list
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Date: 2 Nov 90 04:17:23 GMT
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I've talked to the maintainers of perl-users and they have fixed it so
that it no longer expands tabs into spaces.  (Apparently this was a
side-effect of a fix to prevent IBM hosts from seeing tabs in their
mail, which they aren't set to handle.)

What got me so upset over this was (1) this problem cropped up the
last time Larry sent out a big patch, and the cause was found, but
nobody actually did anything about it, and (2) after editing my
existing sources so that about half the patches would apply, I
realized that the patches were broken, not my sources, but it was far
easier to continue than go back, so now I have lots of spaces where
there shouldn't be.  Sorry for the outburst.

Dale Worley		Compass, Inc.			worley@compass.com
--
If you turn off the soundtrack, human behavior looks very much like
that of other mammals.  The joke (on us) is that we do not deduce from
this the obvious conclusion that human behavior is motivated by the
same forces as the behavior of other mammals.