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Question regarding Mathematica's treatment of whitespace

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• Subject: [mg61795] Question regarding Mathematica's treatment of whitespace
• From: "Matt" <anonmous69 at netscape.net>
• Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 00:43:25 -0400 (EDT)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hello,
  It seems that most of the time Mathematica ignores whitespace.  e.g. all of
the following evaluate with no problem:

Sin    [
Pi/2
]


Sin    [



Pi/2



]


However,

Sin
[Pi/2]

does not.  Is that just the way it is?  The reason I ask, is because I
would like to be able to use brackets '[,]' as I do braces in C/C++ to
help show the 'flow' of logic (within larger functions obviously), but
obviously Module[] doesn't work if it sees a cr/lf before the opening
bracket.

Thanks,

Matt

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