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On Mon, 3 May 1999 21:12:02 GMT, Erik van Blokland <erik@letterror.com> wrote:
>-- Ashton MacAndrews, 5/3/99 21 27:
>>>Rubbish. We don't even *have* a mascot.
>>A giant foot? A crunchy frog? A newt that got better?
>>A [tab] character :>
> eric-the-half-a-bee?

Combine the two! Eric the half a tab.

>erik
the half a newsgroup poster?

I think I'll start ordering my "^I" shirts post haste.
(or perhaps ">>>^I" (I know, it's really "...^I", but that doesn't
look as good, IMHO).)

Maybe have the Knuth indentation quote on the back of the shirt.

Later,
Blake.

What, pray tell, is the "Knuth indentation quote"?



Blake Winton wrote:
...

> I think I'll start ordering my "^I" shirts post haste.
> (or perhaps ">>>^I" (I know, it's really "...^I", but that doesn't
> look as good, IMHO).)
>
> Maybe have the Knuth indentation quote on the back of the shirt.
>
> Later,
> Blake.

William Peterson <wpeterson@cfa.harvard.edu> writes:
> What, pray tell, is the "Knuth indentation quote"?

Probably:

We will perhaps eventually be writing only small modules which
are identified by name as they are used to build larger ones,
so that devices like indentation, rather than delimiters, might
become feasible for expressing local structure in the source
language.

- Donald E. Knuth, "Structured Programming with goto
Statements", Computing Surveys, Vol 6 No 4, Dec. 1974

See http://starship.python.net/crew/amk/quotations/python-quotes.html.
--
Mark Jackson - http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~mjackson
The data structures of the code require some degree
higher than a PhD to understand, since we've got PhDs
and we can't figure them out. - J. A. Templon

William Peterson wrote:
> What, pray tell, is the "Knuth indentation quote"?

http://starship.python.net/crew/amk/quotations/python-quotes.html

"We will perhaps eventually be writing only small modules which
are identified by name as they are used to build larger ones, so
that devices like indentation, rather than delimiters, might be-
come feasible for expressing local structure in the source
language."

-- Donald E. Knuth, "Structured Programming with goto State-
ments", Computing Surveys, Vol 6 No 4, Dec. 1974

</F>

>>>>> "BW" == Blake Winton <bwinton@tor.dhs.org> writes:

BW> Combine the two! Eric the half a tab.

LOL! That does seem somehow appropriate.

-Barry

On Tue, 4 May 1999, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:

>
> >>>>> "BW" == Blake Winton <bwinton@tor.dhs.org> writes:
>
> BW> Combine the two! Eric the half a tab.
>
> LOL! That does seem somehow appropriate.
>
> -Barry

Great! but:

[1] Half a tab : what is that is spaces ?
[2] Can we get this character assigned into unicode space somewhere ?


- Steve M.

On Tue, 4 May 1999, Steven D. Majewski <sdm7g@Virginia.EDU> wrote:
>On Tue, 4 May 1999, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
>> >>>>> "BW" == Blake Winton <bwinton@tor.dhs.org> writes:
>> BW> Combine the two! Eric the half a tab.
>> LOL! That does seem somehow appropriate.
>Great! but:
>[1] Half a tab : what is that is spaces ?

I suppose that's up to the editor. I vote for printing the top half of
the tab. (Since it's being printed on a shirt, what would a whole tab
look like anyways?)

>[2] Can we get this character assigned into unicode space somewhere ?

From what I've seen of Unicode, it's probably already in there,
somewhere...

Later,
Blake.