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Re: Question regarding Mathematica's treatment of whitespace

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• Subject: [mg61806] Re: [mg61795] Question regarding Mathematica's treatment of whitespace
• From: Chris Chiasson <chris.chiasson at gmail.com>
• Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 05:50:00 -0500 (EST)
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I don't know how to do it, but it may be easier to change the way that
the Mathematicia Front End automatically indents/spaces code to your
"one true braces form" (to quote Joel Spolsky without looking up the
real quotation...)

On 10/29/05, Matt <anonmous69 at netscape.net> wrote:
> 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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