Re: space

• From: Stuart Young <nakor@glasswings.com.au>
• Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 19:51:33 +1000 (EST)
• To: Chris Ridd <C.Ridd@imc.exec.nhs.uk>
• cc: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>, www-html@w3.org, www-style@w3.org
• Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960924194721.22511A-100000@fizzgig.glasswings.com.au>

On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Chris Ridd wrote:

> <pre>
> PROCEDURE frob
> BEGIN
>   IF silly <> foolish THEN
>     WRITELN("Ooops.");
> END
> </pre>
> 
> is not legal because of the "<>".

Surely a programmer, even a simple minded one, could write a translation 
utility for such characters, using the standard special codes, (eg: &gt; 
and &lt;) and back again.

Of course, you could always just have a link on the page for a 
'untranslated file' that they could simply download.

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Received on Tuesday, 24 September 1996 05:43:58 UTC