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From:
Allison Randal
Date:
May 11, 2006 12:02
Subject:
Re: A rule by any other name...
Message ID:
44638A3D.3060506@perl.org
Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 08:57:53PM +0800, Audrey Tang wrote:
>> Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
>>>> - <sp> is a single character of obligatory whitespace
>> Hmm, it's literal ' ' (that is, \x20), not "whitespace" in general,
>> right?  For "obligatory whitespace" we have \s.
> 
> Oops, you're correct, I forgot that <sp> is already \x20.
> 
> Allison's proposed definition of <sp> above seems to want to
> change that to "obligatory whitespace".  That's more of what
> I was reacting against.

Read that line above as "all current abbreviations for various forms of 
obligatory whitespace remain the same". And I agree with Audrey that the 
S05 text needs to be clarified.

Allison
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