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RE: Newb question about code style
- From: "Dave Korn" <dk at artimi dot com>
- To: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 12:51:04 -0000
- Subject: RE: Newb question about code style
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gcc-owner On Behalf Of Nathan Sidwell
> Sent: 17 March 2004 12:23
> Why the original *fixed* *width* ASCII character set has a
> character whose width is not only different, but depends on
> where it is, is one of those things.
If you think that's bad, what about the fact that it also contains a
character whose width is not only different, depending on where it is, but
also is always _negative_!
That'll be CR, of course.
Then there's LF. Defined in the same terms, it's a character whose width
is always zero - but has a non-zero imaginary component!
I guess it shows why it's worth having separate abstractions for
characters and glyphs....
>(Of course Knuth would
> question why have a character code for a character with no glyph.)
GOK what he'd make of Ctrl-G!
cheers,
DaveK
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