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From: hafer@infbs.UUCP (Udo Hafermann)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl
Subject: Re: Function layout - a non-issue?
Message-ID: <1197@infbs.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 89 12:14:30 GMT
References: <1193@infbs.UUCP> <8102@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: hafer@infbs.UUCP (Udo Hafermann)
Organization: TU Braunschweig,Informatik,West Germany
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In article <8102@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> rdnelson@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Roger D Nelson) writes:
>If I understand the question correctly, several do.  In particular,
>the STSC APL for 80286 and 386 allows you to put white space where 
>you want it, and so does MicroAPL's APL.68000 for the Amiga (and 
>probably for Mac and Atari.)

Well, I certainly can't get my Amiga APL.68000 to do it (Version 6.04C),
and the ST version doesn't do it either.  Actually I was told by
MicroAPL that they found it a too difficult thing to implement; I can't
really see the problem in having special white space tokens in the
internal representation, provided the user accepts the small slowdown
involved.  They said they might consider keeping spaces at the beginning
of lines or before comment symbols (as APL/PC does it).