Re: should non-breaking space chars act as whitespace for Lisp?

[David Kastrup]

"Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:

> From: Joost Kremers To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: How to get hours from hh:mm
>
>> >   (let ((timelist (split-string time ":")))
>> > When I dan give M-x getMinutes and on the prompt give: 00:18, I get:
>> > Symbol's function definition is void: let
>>
>> most likely because there's a hard space after let.
>
> This makes me wonder if hard-space chars shouldn't act as whitespace as far
> as Lisp is concerned, as opposed to having symbol syntax (or whatever - I
> didn't check this). I don't have an opinion on the matter, but I think this
> is not the first question of this sort I've seen on help-gnu-emacs: users
> are surprised when what they see as whitespace does act as they expect
> whitespace to ace.

Actually, I would not want to have code riddled with unintended
unbreakable spaces (introduced by KNode here, but possible also with
other tools) without Lisp complaining.  There are enough
whitespace-related problems (like trailing space, or tab/space
conversions) already without adding more to it.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum