Re: Found problem with Subrs parsing...

[Tom Kacvinsky]

Hi Just,

On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Just van Rossum wrote:

> At 6:50 PM -0400 24-07-2000, Tom Kacvinsky wrote:
> >Just, as an aside, could you make patches attachments?  Less haggling
> >with patch and rejects because tabs got turned into spaces. ;)  No big
> >deal, I suppose, what with the --ignore-whitespace option...
> 
> Erm, I have a rather old & dumb mailer, which insists on sending each
> attachment as a (Mac) BinHex encoded file; I'm sure this will cause other
> problems for other people... Dunno. On the other hand, I can just check it
> into the CVS tree ;-)
> 

Well, oh, sorry... (I forget about old & dumb mailers) :)

> Tabs/spaces? I thought FT in general didn't use tabs, and I thought I was
> careful not to introduce new ones with this patch. Was there a conflict?
> 

What I meant is that the patch didn't apply because the white space in it
did not match the white space in the C file.  I have seen this happen
when patches are sent in the body of the email note and not as an
attachment.

Tom