worley@compass.uucp (Dale Worley) (11/02/90)
I've talked to the maintainers of perl-users and they have fixed it so that it no longer expands tabs into spaces. (Apparently this was a side-effect of a fix to prevent IBM hosts from seeing tabs in their mail, which they aren't set to handle.) What got me so upset over this was (1) this problem cropped up the last time Larry sent out a big patch, and the cause was found, but nobody actually did anything about it, and (2) after editing my existing sources so that about half the patches would apply, I realized that the patches were broken, not my sources, but it was far easier to continue than go back, so now I have lots of spaces where there shouldn't be. Sorry for the outburst. Dale Worley Compass, Inc. worley@compass.com -- If you turn off the soundtrack, human behavior looks very much like that of other mammals. The joke (on us) is that we do not deduce from this the obvious conclusion that human behavior is motivated by the same forces as the behavior of other mammals.
mer6g@jeeves.acc.Virginia.EDU (Marc Rouleau) (11/02/90)
worley@compass.uucp writes: >I've talked to the maintainers of perl-users They is me! Sorry if I missed some prior public discussion of this -- I don't read this group regularly. >[ tale of woe about how his perl source is now all screwed up ] To make up for this, I'll be happy to mail pl37 source to anyone on Perl-Users who wants it ... of course, it might be easier to use Larry's mail server ... -- Marc Rouleau