David Steuber  <david@david-steuber.com> wrote:
+---------------
| My personal view is that spaces should be left for humans.  As far as
| the compiler is concerned, in the general case, all consecutive
| whitespace should be compressed to a single seperator.  What to do
| inside a literal string gets a little trickier.  There are cases where
| I would like to continue a string on the next line without having to
| use an escape character and without worrying that indentation for
| reading in the code will end up being embedded in the string.  Oh well.
+---------------

Why the "Oh well"?  Common Lisp gives you this:

> (format nil "A string with ~
	      line breaks in it ~
	      that FORMAT elides ~
	      except this one ~@
	      which, though, still eats ~
	      the following whitespace.")

"A string with line breaks in it that FORMAT elides except this one 
which, though, still eats the following whitespace."
> 


-Rob

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