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Dave Whipp wrote:
> But, presumably, you could write a macro that has a whitespace-eater
> encoded
> somehow. That is,
>
> macro leach() { chomp_trailing_whitespace; return "�" }
> macro reach () { chomp_leading_whitespace; return "�" }
>
> then the macro magic would expand "leach eq reach" as "�eq�" (which,
> hopefully, it then re-parses as a single token^Woperator). This doesn't
> solve the generalized problem of disambiguating, though I could see a
> "_" operator defined as a macro that eats all its surrounding
> whitespace.
...making it a "nospace" character (or is that a "no_space" character?
Same thing?)
You wouldn't be able to say "chomp_trailing_whitespace" if you did this,
though.
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Jonathan "Dataweaver" Lang
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